Dubliners: Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914.They form a naturalistic depiction of middle class life in and around Dublin. It is the most famous western works in the 20th century. The collection as a whole like an Impressionist painting with concise strokes and delicate arrangement , displaying a desolate state of the world, distant, cold, but exquisite. These fifteen short stories represent the middle and lower class life in the early twentieth century using realism and ironic techniques with paralysis and death throughout the book.(都柏林人：《都柏林人》是詹姆斯•乔伊斯久负盛名的短篇小说集，称得上20世纪整个西方最著名的短篇小说集了。1914年出版，置景于二三十年代的都柏林，截取中下层人民生活的横断面，一个片刻一群人，十五个故事汇集起来，宛若一幅印象主义的绘画，笔触简练，错落成篇，浮现出苍凉世态，遥远、清冷，然而精致。这十五篇故事，以写实和讽刺的表现手法描绘了二十世纪初期都柏林中下阶层的生活，瘫痪和死亡贯穿全书。)