This volume contains the first ten stories from James Joyce's masterful collection Dubliners , read in their original, unabridged form by Jim Norton who has established a special reputation for his recordings of Joyce's work for Naxos Audiobooks. The ten stories included here are: ""The Sisters,"" ""An Encounter,"" ""Araby,"" ""Eveline,"" ""After the Race,"" ""Two Gallants,"" ""The Boarding House,"" ""A Little Cloud,"" ""Counterparts,"" and ""Clay."" "It was a wise choice to cast Jim Norton as the performer of this collection of James Joyce's short stories. A native Dubliner himself, Norton provides a masterful palette of characterizations for each of the ten pieces, fleshing out the realities of their oftentimes stark and difficult lives with technique that no one but a true local could bring. Irish music is interspersed throughout the production, lending an even more authentic feel without ever becoming overbearing. Dubliners is Joyce's most accessible work; this audio format makes it additionally rewarding." -- "AudioFile" James Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish expatriate writer, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses and its highly controversial successor Finnegans Wake , as well as the short-story collection Dubliners and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.