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Excerpt:"He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a verb in the past tense."

Joyce's short story collection focuses on the details of ordinary life in early 20th century Dublin. The stories are quiet, of simple people with humble ambitions in the moment of epiphany, and planted in a city at once grotesque and beautiful.

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