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Dubliners edit
The collection as a whole displays an overall plan, beginning with stories of youth and progressing in age to culminate in The Dead. Great emphasis is laid upon the specific geographic details of Dublin, details to which a reader with a knowledge of the area would be able to directly relate. The multiple perspectives presented throughout the collection serve to contrast the characters in Dublin at this time.

Dubliners was written to represent the different stages of human life in Dublin, as Joyce has stated, "My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis. I have tried to present it to the indifferent public under four of its aspects: Childhood, adolescence, maturity and public life. The stories are arranged in this order.” Great emphasis is laid upon the specific geographic details of Dublin, details to which a reader with a knowledge of the area would be able to directly relate. The multiple perspectives presented throughout the collection serve to contrast the characters in Dublin at this time.

Between 1905, when Joyce first sent a manuscript to a publisher, and 1914, when the book was finally published, Joyce submitted the book 18 times to a total of 15 publishers. The book's publishing history is a harrowing tale of persistence in the face of frustration. The London house of Grant Richards agreed to publish it in 1905. Its printer, however, refused to set one of the stories (Two Gallants), and Richards then began to press Joyce to remove a number of other passages that he claimed the printer also refused to set. Joyce protested, but eventually did agree to some of the requested changes. Richards eventually backed out of the deal. Joyce thereupon resubmitted the manuscript to other publishers, and about three years later (1909) he found a willing candidate in Maunsel & Roberts of Dublin. Yet, a similar controversy developed and Maunsel too refused to publish it, even threatening to sue Joyce for printing costs already incurred. Joyce offered to pay the printing costs himself if the sheets were turned over to him and he was allowed to complete the job elsewhere and distribute the book, but when Joyce arrived at the printers they refused to surrender the sheets. They burned them the next day. Joyce managed to save one copy, which he obtained "by ruse." He then returned to submitting the manuscript to other publishers, and in 1914 Grant Richards once again agreed to publish the book, using the page proofs saved from Maunsel as copy.[2]

Many of Joyce’s works was first published in Irish Homestead under the pseudonym 'Stephen Daedalus'. Between 1905, when Joyce first sent a completed manuscript to a publisher, and 1914, when the book was finally published, Joyce submitted the book 18 times to a total of 15 publishers. The book's publishing history is a harrowing tale of persistence in the face of frustration. Joyce first sent 'Two Gallants' to Grant Richards for publication on February 22, 1906, which Richards sent to the printers without even looking over. On reading the contents of 'Two Gallants', the printer sent the manuscript back and refused to set the story. Richards then began to press Joyce to remove a number of passages, but Joyce refused. It then became a seven-month battle between Joyce and Richards on editing several parts out of Dubliners, even omitting one story, but by September 24, 1906, Richards backed out of the deal. By 1909, Joyce found a willing candidate in Maunsel & Roberts of Dublin to publish his manuscript. Yet, a similar controversy developed and Maunsel too refused to publish it, due to a conversation that references Edward VII in 'Ivy Day in the Committee Room'. One of the passages states, “He’s fond of his glass of grog and he’s bit of a rake, perhaps, and he’s a good sportsman.” It was another year of disputing over the contents of the manuscript when Joyce decided to write a letter to the King of England with the inclusion of the passage from ‘Ivy Day’, asking the King for his approval of the passage. Nine months later, the King’s private secretary wrote back saying, “It is inconsistent with rule for his Majesty to express his opinion in such a case.” Joyce’s letter along with the king’s response was published in Sinn Féin in hopes to force Maunsel into keeping the contents of Dubliners as it was, but Maunsel ignored, and threatened to sue Joyce for the printing costs that had already incurred. Joyce offered to pay the printing costs himself if the sheets were turned over to him. Maunsel agreed and Joyce was allowed to distribute the books elsewhere, but when Joyce arrived at the printers, they refused to surrender the sheets, and they burned them the next day. Joyce managed to save one copy, which he obtained "by a ruse." He then returned to submitting the manuscript to other publishers, and on January 29, 1914 Grant Richards once again agreed to publish the book, using the page proofs saved from Maunsel as copy.[2] The book was finally published on June 15, 1914.