{"product_id":"book-1o78","title":"Dubliners","description":"\u003cp\u003eDubliners is James Joyce's masterpiece of the short story form-a collection that forever changed the way we understand ordinary life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFifteen stories, fifteen portraits of Dublin's middle class at the turn of the twentieth century. A boy experiences the painful awakening of first love at a bazaar called Araby. An young woman stands at a dock, torn between her oppressive home and the promise of escape with a sailor. A politician remembers his youth on Ivy Day, mourning the death of Charles Stewart Parnell. And in the famous final story, \"The Dead,\" a music teacher discovers a shattering truth about his wife's past during a Christmas party, realizing that the living are haunted by the dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoyce's Dubliners are trapped-by family, by faith, by nation, by their own fears and habits. In each story, Joyce builds toward a moment of epiphany, a sudden flash of insight that reveals the true nature of a character's life. The prose is precise, deceptively simple, and deeply empathetic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1914 after years of rejection, Dubliners now stands as one of the most influential short story collections in English literature. It announced the arrival of a major new voice and paved the way for Joyce's later experiments in Ulysses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis audiobook is based on the 1914 public domain text. Produced and narrated by Qingye Wuchen, with AI assistance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":66725258723632,"sku":"BD1o78","price":12.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/1o78-Square-cover.jpg?v=1779477011","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-1o78","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}