AuthorJames Joyce
NarratorT P Mckenna
Duration16m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Short Stories
Key StageA Level
PublisherCSA Word
VersionUnabridged
One of Joyce's celebrated tales from his 'Dubliners' collection, which follows Maria, a likeable maid, as she travels from work to her make-shift-family home. Written in Joyce's famous train-of-consciousness style, his words work well on audio, especially when read in T.P. McKenna's lyrical and nimble Irish tone.
Author: James Joyce
Author James Joyce
Narrator T P Mckenna
Duration 12m
Eveline is short story from James Joyce's celebrated short story collection 'Dubliners'. It begins with Eveline, a nineteen-year-old girl, who has met a sailor, Frank, who has convinced her to run away to Buenos Aires with him. Should she go with Frank, or remain in Ireland, her homeland? This beautiful story gives great insight into the predicamen...
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Author: James Joyce
Author James Joyce
Narrator T P Mckenna
Duration 49m
After a Dublin 'tea taster', salesman Tom Kernan loses consciousness while drunk and takes a nasty fall down the stairs. His friends, who want to help rescue Kernan from inevitable consequences of his flawed ways, gather in his bedroom and talk about a catholic retreat, which is taking place for the benefit of businessmen. They persuade him to atte...
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Author: James Joyce
Author James Joyce
Narrator T P Mckenna
Duration 36m
A political discussion piece, this story sees political canvassers in Ireland discussing the merits of their candidates and the advantages and pitfalls of their positions, including whether or not they are to be paid. Also concerned with allegiances and tensions between nationalists and loyalists, this story from 'Dubliners' is historically interes...
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Author: James Joyce
Author James Joyce
Narrator Stephen Rea
Duration 7h 25m
The young poet Stephen has been recalled from Paris to Dublin to be at his mother's deathbed. But he refuses her dying wishes: to kneel and pray for her. Now, holed up in his Martello tower outside the city walls, he has to suffer the taunts of Buck Mulligan by day and, by night, the vision of 'her eyes, shaking out of death to shake and bend my so...
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Author: James Joyce
Author James Joyce
Narrator T P Mckenna
Duration 16m
A coming-of-age story of sorts, which follows a boy from Dublin as he fantasises over his friend's sister. Also a tale of disillusionment and 'growing up', the story is a skilful expose of the naivety of youth and the unrealistic expectations we place on others. A stunning examination of an adolescent mind and the conflicts between youth and adulth...
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Counterparts: From "dubliners"
Author: James Joyce
Author James Joyce
Narrator T P Mckenna
Duration 28m
A day in the life of Farrington, an Irish man X who faces daily trials and tribulations in this anthropological story from James Joyce's Dubliners. A listener hears Farrington's tribulation-full journey from the office, to the pub and home. This tale makes no judgments but portrays a life-beaten man who is neither entirely wrong nor right in his ow...
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Author: James Joyce
Author James Joyce
Narrator Jim Norton
Duration 6h 51m
A sequence of eight stories depicting middle-class Catholic life in Dublin, including 'Araby', 'Eveline' and 'The Dead'. The frustrations of childhood, disappointments of adolescence and mystery of sexual awakening are related with clarity and sensitivity.
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Author: James Joyce
Author James Joyce
Narrator T P Mckenna
Duration 1h 31m
From Dubliners: The Dead - At a party, Gabriel Conroy offends three women and realizes in an epiphany that passionless people like himself are already dead. At 15-16,000 words this story has also been classified as a novella. The Dead was adapted to film by John Huston, written for the screen by his son Tony and starring his daughter Anjelica as M...
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Author: James Joyce
Author James Joyce
Narrator T P Mckenna
Duration 19m
Mrs. Mooney, separated from her husband, a butcher who descended into alcoholism, runs a boarding house for working men. Her daughter Polly entertains the boarders by singing and flirts with them. When Mrs. Mooney learns that her daughter is having an affair with one of the men, she starts to wonder how she may manipulate the situation. An interest...
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