Dubliners

By: James Joyce

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

"Cosham reads with a gentle accent that enhances Joyce's Dublin...Recommended for most collections." (Library Journal)

James Joyce, 1882-1941, is one of the world's greatest writers. Dubliners, his first and most accessible fiction, was started in in 1904 and completed in 1905. Because it was considered explicit and critical of the Church, it was censored in Ireland. Two publishers broke contracts rather than publish it. When, in 1912, Joyce returned to Dublin to buy back his work, a printer destroyed the sheets and broke up the type. It was not published until 1914.

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I enjoyed these short stories, but I must say that there is a problem with the performance. Each chapter is a different story, and the reader goes so quickly from one story to another, without a pause or saying the chapter number, that I didn’t have even a second for reflection of the end of the tale. I couldn’t even react fast enough to stop the recording, so I had to reverse to hear the ending and pause for reflection before listening to the next story.