Very good, nice condition with wear to cover. Some fading. Book is flat, tight, and clean. Additional Details ------------------------------ Product description: Before publishing his two great novels "Ulysses" and "Finnegans Wake," James Joyce wrote these fifteen stories of Dublin life in a frank and factual way, including nothing that is not pertinent to the plot or the very human characters. The incidents he relates are small in themselves but of universal interest, and while Joyce is impersonal, he is far from hostile to his Dubliners, whom he portrays with sympathy, understanding, and wit and on whose doings he may imply, but never pronounce, a judgement.