Dubliners: The Sisters
by James Joyce
23 minutes, 51 seconds
Unabridged Short Story
1914
"There was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke. Night after night I had passed the house (it was vacation time) and studied the lighted square of window: and night after night I had found it lighted in the same way, faintly and evenly. If he was dead, I thought, I would see the reflection of candles on the darkened blind for I knew that two candles must be set at the head of a corpse. He had often said to me: 'I am not long for this world,' and I had thought his words idle. Now I knew they were true..."
The first 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
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23 minutes, 51 seconds
Unabridged Short Story
1914
"There was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke. Night after night I had passed the house (it was vacation time) and studied the lighted square of window: and night after night I had found it lighted in the same way, faintly and evenly. If he was dead, I thought, I would see the reflection of candles on the darkened blind for I knew that two candles must be set at the head of a corpse. He had often said to me: 'I am not long for this world,' and I had thought his words idle. Now I knew they were true..."
The first 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
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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 10, 2010 or after 100,000 purchases, whichever comes first. Read more.
Posted by alex at May 10, 2005 11:47 AM
