Dubliners by James Joyce (Wordsworth Hardback)

Dubliners by James Joyce (Wordsworth Hardback)Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic brutishness, sentimental aunts and poets, patriots earnest or cynical, and people striving to get by. In every sense an international figure,

who instructs Mowgli in the Laws of the Jungle

and Albert the dog trainer

It is also a soulful and thought-provoking autobiography from one of our best-loved and most talented actors and writers

'Cuts to the heart of who we are' Sunday Times

yet has a reputation for complexity and controversy

Her sentimental companion Amelia

a woman who has come to live in the town to escape her own disappointments

this is the story of a garden in all its many splendours

If you look hard enough

'Sontag offers enough food for thought to satisfy the most intellectual of appetites' The Times

he is alone

and often hilarious