Dubliners
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There was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke. Night after night I had passed the house (it was vacation time) and studied the lighted square of window: and night after night I had found it lighted in the same way, faintly and evenly. If he was dead, I thought, I would see the reflection of candles on the darkened blind for I knew that two candles must be set at the head of a corpse. He had often said …
Details
- AuthorJames Joyce
- SourceProject Gutenberg #2814
- Length66,389 words · 4h 26m of reading
- Chapters17
- DictionaryIncluded
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-28
Contents
17 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01THE SISTERS
- 02AN ENCOUNTER
- 03ARABY
- 04EVELINE
- 05AFTER THE RACE
- 06TWO GALLANTS
- 07THE BOARDING HOUSE
- 08A LITTLE CLOUD
- 09COUNTERPARTS
- 10CLAY
- 11A PAINFUL CASE
- 12A PAINFUL CASE
- 13IVY DAY IN THE COMMITTEE ROOM
- 14ROYAL EXCHANGE WARD
- 15A MOTHER
- 16GRACE
- 17THE DEAD
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