Theme Love Joyce s first major work written when he was only twenty-five brought his city to the world for the first time. An ambitious mother a boy in love a lonely older man a cynical intellectual and a girl who dreams of a life in another country are just a few of Joyce s Dubliners. In these realistic tales Joyce reveals the hopes fears and disappointments of his characters. He also shows us turnof- the-century Dublin in fascinating detail. This selection of eight stories from Dubliners includes Eveline Araby and a two-part adaptation of Joyce s novella The Dead