Dubliners: Araby
by James Joyce
15 minutes, 54 seconds
Unabridged Short Story
1914
The adventure and frustration of a first crush.
"Every morning I lay on the floor in the front parlour watching her door. The blind was pulled down to within an inch of the sash so that I could not be seen. When she came out on the doorstep my heart leaped. I ran to the hall, seized my books and followed her. I kept her brown figure always in my eye and, when we came near the point at which our ways diverged, I quickened my pace and passed her. This happened morning after morning. I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood."
The third 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: 1-15 minutes, 15-30 minutes, 2005 Release, Alex Wilson (Reader), Fiction, Free, James Joyce, Podcast, Popular Author, Short Story
Purchase Dubliners in print/book form at Amazon.com via this link and Spoken Alexandria gets a small percentage of the purchase price. [new window]
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15 minutes, 54 seconds
Unabridged Short Story
1914
The adventure and frustration of a first crush.
"Every morning I lay on the floor in the front parlour watching her door. The blind was pulled down to within an inch of the sash so that I could not be seen. When she came out on the doorstep my heart leaped. I ran to the hall, seized my books and followed her. I kept her brown figure always in my eye and, when we came near the point at which our ways diverged, I quickened my pace and passed her. This happened morning after morning. I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood."
The third 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: 1-15 minutes, 15-30 minutes, 2005 Release, Alex Wilson (Reader), Fiction, Free, James Joyce, Podcast, Popular Author, Short Story
Purchase Dubliners in print/book form at Amazon.com via this link and Spoken Alexandria gets a small percentage of the purchase price. [new window]
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].
Posted by alex at July 19, 2005 12:00 PM
