Two Gallants (short story) weary of the eyes of strangers and her master’s hands, suggesting molestation and exploitation put on display. The moon slowly being covered by rain clouds can also be read as the romantic ideal disappearing. It is replaced at the end with material gain. Corley holds up the coin like a knight who has found the grail, and the contrast to reality emphasizes the degeneration of morals. 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
Ernest Hemingway: The Collected Stories Return" (the first two parts of "To Have and Have Not"); and "An African Story" (filleted from various chapters of "The Garden of Eden"—itself a posthumous novel). Ernest Hemingway: The Collected Stories Ernest Hemingway: The Collected Stories is a posthumous collection of Hemingway's short fiction, published in 1995. Introduced by James Fenton, it is published in the UK only by Random House as part of the Everyman Library. The collection is split in two parts. Part One contains the four individual collections of stories Hemingway published during his lifetime. They are the tiny experimental prose volume, "in our time" (1924),