![]() The impact of Dubliners continues to be felt to this day, influencing generations of Canadian short story writers. It wouldn’t be Joyce’s last run in with censors. Not because publishers didn’t like it - they did - but because of legal concerns, and moral scruples that seem impossibly dated by today’s standards. ![]() Joyce had been shopping the manuscript around since 1905, but found it a difficult sell. Publication, in this case, came well after the book was actually written. In June 1914 Europe may have been sliding toward the abyss but that month also saw the publication of James Joyce’s Dubliners, a book that still stands as probably the greatest single collection of short stories ever written in English ![]() ![]() While hunkered down under a year-long creeping barrage of centenary commemorations of the outbreak of the First World War, it makes for a nice change of pace to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of an event far less horrible and destructive. ![]()
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