Through what Joyce described as their style of scrupulous meanness, the stories present a direct, sometimes searing view of Dublin in the early twentieth century. The text of this Norton Critical Edition is based on renowned Joyce scholar Hans Walter Gabler s edited text and includes his editorial notes and the introduction to his scholarly edition, which details and discusses Dubliners complicated publication history. Contexts offers a rich collection of materials that bring the stories and the Irish capital to life for twenty-first century readers, including photographs, newspaper articles and advertising, early versions of two of the stories, and a satirical poem by Joyce about his publication woes. Criticism brings together eight illuminating essays on the most frequently taught stories in Dubliners- Araby, Eveline, After the Race, The Boarding House, Counterpoints, A Painful Case, and The Dead. Contributors include David G. Wright, Heyward Ehrlich, Margot Norris, James Fairhall, Fritz Senn, Morris Beja, Roberta Jackson, and Vincent J. Cheng.