In the collection, Joyce chooses Dublin, the capital of Ireland, as the background, and presents to us vivid description of the life in Dublin at the beginning of the last century.

这本小说集以爱尔兰首都都柏林为背景，生动地再现了上世纪初的一幅幅都柏林生活图景。

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