Author: James Joyce
Title: Dubliners
Original publication date: 1914
Book awards: Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits (63),
First words: There was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke.
Last words: His soul swooned slowly as heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living, and the dead.
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