The famous fifteen short stories in a new translation. "And first, one should read the Dubliners. It is the only way to understand the work of one of the greatest writers." T. S. Eliot. The fifteen short stories collected in this volume were first published in 1914. They are the first prose work of the world-renowned author. With his realistic-psychological vignettes, James Joyce casts a critical yet never denunciatory gaze on his hometown of Dublin. These small masterpieces form an episodic cycle that tells of the constraints of life and the longing for the vast world at the beginning of the 20th century. Newly translated and accompanied by an afterword, notes, and a timeline by Harald Raykowski.