Dubliners This collection of 15 stories by James Joyce is one of my favorite books. Opening it I am travelling to Dublin (and to the past) fully caught up with it. I am sure that this masterpiece is very close to the works by Chekhov. (If somebody doesn't know he is a russian writer of 19th-20th centuries). I'm sure that they wrote about similar things importing the same ideas and feelings and the only difference is the country. If I were a film director I'll make a movie version of "Dubliners" where my camers will travel along the streets of Dublin looking into hauses of the dramatis persons.