Dubliners: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Dubliners, credited to James Joyce, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Dubliners, by James Joyce. Read by Tadhg Hynes. Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences. They centre on Joyce's idea of an epiphany: a moment where a character experiences self-understanding or illumination. Many of the characters in Dubliners later appear in minor roles in Joyce's novel Ulysses. The initial stories in the collection are narrated by child protagonists, and as the stories continue, they deal with the lives and concerns of progressively older people. This is in line with Joyce's tripartite division of the collection into childhood, adolescence, and maturity. (Summary from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Dubliners
• Author credits: James Joyce
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Listed recording duration: 6:39:39

Catalogue topics

• Joyce
• Dublin
• the dead
• Trinity College
• Ireland
• short stories

Track guide

1. 01 - The Sisters — 18:22
2. 02 - An Encounter — 18:00
3. 03 - Araby — 13:33
4. 04 - Eveline — 10:31
5. 05 - After The Race — 14:04
6. 06 - Two Gallants — 23:04
7. 07 - The Boarding House — 16:13
8. 08 - A Little Cloud — 29:35
9. 09 - Counterparts — 22:55
10. 10 - Clay — 14:57
11. 11 - A Painful Case — 22:00
12. 12 - Ivy Day In The Committee Room — 31:44
13. 13 - A Mother — 25:57
14. 14 - Grace — 46:54
15. 15 - The Dead, Part one — 58:22
16. 16 - The Dead, Part two — 33:36

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