In Dubliners, James Joyce takes us on an extraordinary journey with the ordinary men and women from the city of his birth. In ''Araby'' a young boy struggles with everyday tasks in the face of a growing infatuation with his neighbour''s sister; in ''The Boarding House'' a single mother orchestrates a marriage proposal for her daughter; in ''The Dead'' the ideas of birth and decay are played out over the course of a dinner. From short, lyrical stories to the novella-length masterpiece which concludes this collection, Dubliners is as alive with feeling as it was when first published.