James Joyce's short story collection Dubliners (1914) was conceived as a portrait of the inner life of his native Ireland, with Dublin at its heart—a city he famously described as the "center of paralysis." Through a sequence of stories depicting the city, its middle class, and an atmosphere of apathy, Joyce structures the collection around four stages of life: childhood, adolescence, maturity, and public life. Despite their struggles, his characters remain trapped in monotony, unable to escape their circumstances, yet they continue to dream—dreams that serve as an illusory means of escape. A central theme of Dubliners is epiphany—a moment of sudden realization or revelation. Notably, this edition presents the first complete Armenian translation of the collection, including previously untranslated stories.