Dubliners

This completely updated Viking Critical Library edition of James Joyce's story collection and ade to his native city contains the full text of Dubliners, along with extensive critical and contextual material, including: Joyce's correspondence with his publisher about the composition of Dubliners, including "A Curious History," Joyce's own "preface" to the work Earlier drafts of "Eveline," "The Boarding House," and "The Sisters," as well as a facsimile page from the first version of "A Painful Case" written in Joyce's hand three new essays by Jane. E. Miller, Bruce Avery, and Michael Levenson Commentary on the use of epiphany in Joyce's work Essays on the most famous of the Dubliners stories, "The Dead," by Frank O'Connor, Allen Tate, Kenneth Burke, C.C. Loomis and others An introduction by the editors, a chronology, a list of topics for discussion and papers, and a bibliography (back cover)