Two Gallants (short story) Two Gallants (short story) "Two Gallants" is a short story by James Joyce published in his 1914 collection "Dubliners." It tells the story of two Irishmen who are frustrated with their lack of achievement in life and rely on the exploitation of others to live. Joyce considered the story to be one of the most important in "Dubliners." The London house of Grant Richards agreed to publish "Dubliners" in 1905, but there were printing complications and concerns of obscenity. One of the stories with passages in question was “Two Gallants.” Joyce questions Richard's reluctance to publish by asking "Is it
The Man Who Knew Too Much (book) and format to the main eight, as well as to Chesterton's Father Brown stories, but each is unconnected, with its own protagonist. All the stories are around 20 to 30 pages in length, except "The Trees of Pride", which is 67 pages long in the first edition, and divided into four chapters. The Man Who Knew Too Much (book) The Man Who Knew Too Much and other stories (1922) is a book of detective stories by English writer G. K. Chesterton, published in 1922 by Cassell and Company in the United Kingdom, and Harper Brothers in the United States. The