<p>As a delineator of the darkest aspects of Dublin James Joyce is unmatched.<br><br>For him it has remained in " Dubliners " to illuminate with a flood search of imagination and sympathy extensions entire understanding of middle-class life in the gray city and laughing. Invest with a convincing reality and lasting human significance which are apparently the most trivial and insignificant events.<br><br>This volume of fifteen short stories and sk...