The Sisters (short story) as a Young Man" and "Ulysses". ″The Sisters″ was the start of a series called "Dubliners" that he hoped the "Homestead" would continue to publish. In fact, Joyce would write two more stories for the "Homestead", ″Eveline″ and ″After the Race,″ before complaints stopped the paper from publishing any more of his stories. Joyce, nevertheless, continued to add more stories to the collection. But, he had great difficulty getting "Dubliners" published, and it wasn't until 1914 that the first edition of the book came out. During that decade, ″The Sisters″ went through a number of revisions. The two published versions
The Seven Heroes and Five Gallants part were largely taken from literary and oral traditions and as such contain supernatural materials (what "Bamboo-Inquiring Master", possibly Shi Yukun himself, described as "the occasional strange and bizarre event"). In comparison, the second part exclusively represents Shi's creative genius and is devoid of superstition. The 1879 novel does not complete by the 120th and final chapter, instead, in the final page the readers are referred to a sequel book titled "The Five Younger Gallants" (小五義), which was said to be "close to a hundred chapters". In 1890, a novel with that title was published by another Beijing publisher, Wenguang