Dubliners

Complete and unabridged, with 99 full-page plates by Édouard Manet, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot and Gustave Courbet. Fifteen stories of Dublin lives that stop short of the moment when something might change, ending with the snow falling over Ireland in The Dead. Joyce spent nine years getting the book into print: one publisher set the type and then burned the sheets rather than risk the references...