Dubliners: An Encounter
by James Joyce
21 minutes, 58 seconds
Unabridged Short Story
1914
"It was Joe Dillon who introduced the Wild West to us. He had a little library made up of old numbers of The Union Jack , Pluck and The Halfpenny Marvel . Every evening after school we met in his back garden and arranged Indian battles. He and his fat young brother Leo, the idler, held the loft of the stable while we tried to carry it by storm; or we fought a pitched battle on the grass. But, however well we fought, we never won siege or battle and all our bouts ended with Joe Dillon's war dance of victory..."
The second coming-of-age story in James Joyce's collection Dubliners, classic tales dealing thematically with miscommunication, isolation, class differences, and emotional paralysis in Joyce's Ireland.
Read by Alex Wilson.
Categories: 15-30 minutes, 2005 Release, 20th Century AD, 75 cents, Alex Wilson (Reader), Fiction, James Joyce, Popular Author, Short Story
This recording will be released under the Creative Commons Non-Commercial License on May 31, 2010 or after 100,000 purchases, whichever comes first. Read more.
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21 minutes, 58 seconds
Unabridged Short Story
1914
"It was Joe Dillon who introduced the Wild West to us. He had a little library made up of old numbers of The Union Jack , Pluck and The Halfpenny Marvel . Every evening after school we met in his back garden and arranged Indian battles. He and his fat young brother Leo, the idler, held the loft of the stable while we tried to carry it by storm; or we fought a pitched battle on the grass. But, however well we fought, we never won siege or battle and all our bouts ended with Joe Dillon's war dance of victory..."
The second coming-of-age story in James Joyce's collection Dubliners, classic tales dealing thematically with miscommunication, isolation, class differences, and emotional paralysis in Joyce's Ireland.
Read by Alex Wilson.
Categories: 15-30 minutes, 2005 Release, 20th Century AD, 75 cents, Alex Wilson (Reader), Fiction, James Joyce, Popular Author, Short Story
James Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish writer, widely considered one o fthe greatest English language writers of the 20th century.
Alex Wilson is a writer and stage/film actor from northern Ohio and now based in Carrboro, North Carolina. He starred in the North American Premiere of Richard Taylor's musical Whistle Down the Wind and recently filmed The Third Cord with Emmy-nominated director Jack Lucido. His animated comics-parody film All's Fair in Love and Police Actions was recently selected as an iFilm Pick. He is the founder of Telltale Weekly and Spoken Alexandria. See his website for more. [new windows, all].
This recording will be released under the Creative Commons Non-Commercial License on May 31, 2010 or after 100,000 purchases, whichever comes first. Read more.
Posted by alex at May 31, 2005 3:08 PM
