Dubliners

Dubliners by James Joyce is a collection of short stories that revolve around the everyday lives of men, women and children in the Irish capital of Dublin. The short stories are generally unhappy tales that form a chronicle of lost innocence, missed opportunities, and paralysis which is always depicted as moral and physical paralysis. Joyce said that in Dubliners his intention was "to write a chapter in the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis".(11, james joyce and the common readr) The 15 stories which make u…