Dubliners (Collins Classics) Paperback – January 2, 2012

Great edition! It’s paperback, not hardback with a dust jacket (like I thought it would be) which is really almost preferable. Lots of notes! Love the additional artwork. Highly recommend!

A wonderful, fascinating read. The preface and introduction gives focus and historical perspective. Take your time. There is no need to rush, linger and get to know Dublin of a hundred plus years ago. This is my first Joyce book. It will not be my last.

There is no finer collection of short stories than this, and there is no finer use of the English language. A great introduction to the genius, James Joyce.

Joyce was one of the inventors of the modern short story. Don't expect a beginning, a middle and an end. The stories describe the life of the poor and the lower middle class people in Dublin at the end of the 1800s. People are living of expedients, are not well educated, and they make use of Catholicism sometimes to delude themselves and at other times to control other people.The Penguin Edition has excellent notes, and these stories without notes would be impossible to understand: they refer to Irish customs, legends, obscure Catholic rites, Gaelic words, specific shops and street in Dublin, etc. The pages of the book are cut unevenly, to make it look like a "vintage book" but it is very impractical: it makes it impossible to flip through the pages.

Each of the stories in this book are wonderful, culminating in "The Dead." I would highly recommend it to anyone who is afraid of Joyce.

Beautiful, readable edition, worthy of this classic. The book design, the type face, and even the paper were all first rate.

Good quality of book, amazing quality of Joyce.

Look at this beautiful new cover for Dubliners! Found this in Classic Penguin Cover.

Edición muy bonita y el tamaño de letra también muy adecuado.

Bellissima edizione Deluxe della Penguin.Ho già qualche volume della Barnes & Nobles e della Penguin Classics. Mi piacciono Tutte.La qualità della carta è ottima e da un tocco retro al volume mantenendo un impatto molto giovanile e moderno. Sono molto soddisfatto.

The introduction is insufferably long and should have been used as an epilogue instead. I don’t see the point of reading through 40 pages describing Joyce’s work while constantly referring to the characters in „Dubliners“, when I haven’t even read the book yet. This would be of much better use at the end of the book.The book itself is awesome. I like the stories, love the edition, I also love the rough-cut pages. It looks great!

This is already a great book in any form. I won't attempt to put into words the writing of Joyce as there are many, many other and considerably better places to give you that information. I will however say that the presentation of this edition is fantastic. The paper is great, the font easy to read and yet has a classic look, and the colourful cover means this book looks great on the shelf or coffee table once you've done ingesting it.Big fan of all of these editions and glad to see Joyce continue to play such an important part in the literary world.

Oh, what a delight to behold this book!The cover is such a flexible paperback, you can fall asleep on it and it'll still be alright. (Speaking from experience.)It has numerous notes from various prominent scholars of Joyce, ensuring there's always a hand to guide you through the pieces, which is necessary since these are Joyce's works.All in all, a prized edition at this price for any admirer of James Joyce and Modernism.