Dubliners

A boy waits for a girl who never quite becomes his. A man drinks away an evening he'll regret. A woman stands at a dock, suitcase packed, and doesn't board the boat. Fifteen times, James Joyce's Dublin offers its characters a door out — and fifteen times, something closes it. Dubliners is the book that announced Joyce as a master of the short story before he became modernism's most towering novel...