Began when James Joyce was only twenty-two, and completed three years later, Dubliners unconventional themes and language caused them at first to be rejected before coming to be seen as some of the most powerful portrayals of the human experience. All the stories are beautifully turned and admired not only as modernistic and a product of their time, but also as some of the most intimate and poetic prose ever written. 287 pages, hardcover with dust jacket.