Eveline | Critical Overview
A discussion on the critical reception of Dubliners cannot be separated from the difficulties that Joyce had in publishing the book. His publisher, Grant Richards, was afraid that the content of many of the stories was obscene according to British law. Although “Eveline,” one of the more innocuous stories in the collection, was first published in serialized form a mere month befoRe Joyce left Dublin with Nora Barnacle in October of 1904, the entire collection was not published in book form for another nine years when Richards, who felt the moral climate had changed...
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