| Title | : | Dubliners |
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| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0241542588 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780241542583 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 112 |
| Publication | : | Published April 7, 2022 |
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Dubliners, a Level 6 Reader, is B1+ in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future continuous, reported questions, third conditional, was going to and ellipsis. A small number of illustrations support the text.
In these stories, Joyce describes the lives of ordinary Dubliners. Their lives are not always easy, and they have problems with their families. They were the people who Joyce grew up with and he knew them very well.
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Dubliners Reviews
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There's just something about reading of the sooty, wet cobblestones of the Irish during the warmest day in the equator that can cool you faster than a glass of ice-cold lemonade sweating in the sun.
My work bestie read this book while it was languishing in his home (we bought a set of books before covid) and said he didn't really feel anything for the stories in this book. Fifteen stories of ordinary Irish citizens doing ordinary things in the 1700s hardly makes for gravitating literature.
But as someone who is close at heart to the land of my birth, I can see why Joyce wrote what he did. For him, it would've meant much more than it would mean for us, strangers to his way of life, generations after him. This is probably one of the books where intertextuality would matter greatly in the overall enjoyment of the book.
There were some cleverly written lines that I found resonated with me; particularly the following:
I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.
Rapid motion elates one; so does notoriety; so does the possession of money. -
Uno dei miei libri preferiti in assoluto, non mi sento di aggiungere altro.
