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Dubliners

James Joyce

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These stories follow children and adults through Dublin’s homes, streets, workplaces, and social gatherings. Small journeys, disappointed hopes, family obligations, and awkward encounters expose lives at moments of pressure. The collection moves across different ages and perspectives rather than following a single hero through one continuous plot.

15 sections67,545 wordsAbout 5 h 7 min
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About Dubliners

Ordinary conversation often carries more than its speakers acknowledge. A delayed errand, a failed performance, or an uneasy visit can reveal the gap between a hoped-for life and habitual behavior. Read for changes in distance between narrator and character, and for endings that make earlier details newly visible without supplying a complete explanation of what should happen next.

Reading focus

Read the collection as distinct encounters with disappointed expectation, attending to the small details that acquire new force near each ending.

This reading edition contains 67,545 words in 15 original sections. Read the text online with adjustable type and three colour themes, or keep a printable PDF.

Author: James Joyce. Language: English. Reading edition: 28 October 2026.

Opening excerpt

There was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke. Night after night I had passed the house (it was vacation time) and studied the lighted square of window: and night after night I had found it lighted in the same way, faintly and evenly. If he was dead, I thought, I would see the reflection of candles on the darkened blind for I knew that two candles must be set at the head of a corpse. He had often said to me: “I am not long for this world,” and I had thought his words idle. Now I knew they were true. Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears, like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word…

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Contents

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  1. THE SISTERS15 min
  2. AN ENCOUNTER15 min
  3. ARABY11 min
  4. EVELINE9 min
  5. AFTER THE RACE11 min
  6. TWO GALLANTS18 min
  7. THE BOARDING HOUSE13 min
  8. A LITTLE CLOUD23 min
  9. COUNTERPARTS19 min
  10. CLAY12 min
  11. A PAINFUL CASE17 min
  12. IVY DAY IN THE COMMITTEE ROOM24 min
  13. A MOTHER21 min
  14. GRACE35 min
  15. THE DEAD71 min

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