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Araby by James Joyce
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Araby

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Narrator John Telfer

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Length 14 minutes
Language English
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A teenage boy falls in love with his friend's sister and must finagle a trip to a bazaar at nearby Araby to win her heart. But will it be that easy?

James Joyce (1882โ€“1941) was an Irish expatriate writer, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses and its highly controversial successor Finnegans Wake, as well as the short-story collection Dubliners and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

John Telfer, an Earphones Awardโ€“winning narrator, is an actor best known for playing the character of Willy Pettit in five seasons of Bergerac. He has appeared many times in various television dramas, while his parallel theatrical career has involved him in leading roles at the Bristol Old Vic, the Royal National Theatre, the Old Vic in London, and many regional theaters. He has made hundreds of radio broadcasts, and he plays the part of Alan, the vicar, in The Archers.

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โ€œJoyceโ€™s short story โ€œArabyโ€ shows us a Dubliner stumbling over the boggy ground of adolescenceโ€ฆIn an evening the narrator has moved from an innocent boy playing in the last light of childhood, to an anguished young man who has come to realize that maturity is not the realization of childhoodโ€™s promise, but its loss.โ€ฆOne of those often small but definitive moments, after which life is never quite the same again.โ€

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