Dubliners by James Joyce was first published on 15 June
1914.
Though James Joyce began these
stories of Dublin life in 1904 when he was twenty-two and completed them in 1907,
their unconventional themes and language led to repeated rejections by
publishers and delayed publication until 1914. His story The Dead has come to
be seen as one of the most powerful evocations of human loss and longing that
the English language possesses; all the other stories in Dubliners are
as beautifully turned and as greatly admired. They remind us once again that
James Joyce was not only Modernism’s chief innovator, but also one of its most
intimate and poetic writers.
