Dubliners

<p><em>Dubliners</em> is a collection of 15 short stories portraying ordinary life in early-20th-century Dublin. Through characters of different ages and backgrounds Joyce explores themes of paralysis routine disillusionment and the longing for escape. Each story captures small but powerful moments of realization-or epiphanies-that reveal the emotional and social struggles of the city's inhabitants. The final story <strong>The Dead</strong> ties the collection together with a profound meditation on love memory and mortality.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p>