A collection of eight interconnected stories features seven different people who, every Friday evening, travel from Dublin to Rathdoon on Tom Fitzgerald's lilac-colored bus.

"For the centennial of its original publication, an irresistible Graphic Deluxe Edition of one of the most beloved books of the 20th century Perhaps the greatest short story collection in the English language, James Joyce's Dubliners is a vivid and unflinching portrait of "dear dirty Dublin" at the turn of the twentieth century. These fifteen stories, including such unforgettable ones as "Araby," "Grace," and "The Dead," delve into the heart of the...

The remarkable collection of stories that make up Dubliners was described by Joyce himself as a series of chapters in the moral history of his community; the arrangement of the tales reveals "a progression from childhood to maturity, broadening from private to public scope," as Harry Levin noted. The short novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man follows Stephen Dedalus from his days as a student at the Clongowes Wood School, to the deep religious...