Dubliners: Text and Criticism (Viking Critical Library)

This completely updated Viking Critical Library edition of James Joyce's story collection and ade to his native city contains the full text of Dubliners, along with extensive critical and contextual material, including:Joyce's correspondence with his publisher about the composition of Dubliners, including "A Curious History," Joyce's own "preface" to the workEarlier drafts of "Eveline," "The Boarding House," and "The Sisters," as well as a facsimile page from the first version of "A Painful Case" written in Joyce's handthree new essays by Jane. E. Miller, Bruce Avery, and Michael LevensonCommentary on the use of epiphany in Joyce's workEssays on the most famous of the Dubliners stories, "The Dead," by Frank O'Connor, Allen Tate, Kenneth Burke, C.C. Loomis and othersAn introduction by the editors, a chronology, a list of topics for discussion and papers, and a bibliography(back cover)