Dubliners Coffee as likely to make you

as likely to make you laugh out loud as it is to make you cry" (The Washington Post)

offering insights into his experiences and how they shaped his views on equality and empowerment

its hold on the imaginations of multiple generations of readers

and children--the violent and capricious separation of families--and the war they waged to simply make lives with the people they loved

and important social commentary populated with several of the most unforgettable and enduring characters in literature

Dubliners Coffee as likely to make youIntroduction by John Banville James Joyce was the singular figure of modernism, and to this day his grand vision looms large over contemporary literature and the entire Western canon. His stylistic innovations were revolutionary, yet nowhere is Joyce more accessible than in this volume of short stories, a brilliant collection that celebrates, critiques, and immortalizes the place that Joyce knew better than anyone else: Dublin. From the young boy