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 Seven Heroes and Five Gallants competitors who claimed that they possessed Shi Yukun's story as "shameless crooks". Although "The Sequel to the Five Younger Gallants" completed the tale, it could not stop enthusiasts and profiteers from writing and publishing more sequels, such as "Another Sequel to the Five Younger Gallants" (再續小五義), "The Third Sequel to the Five Younger Gallants" (三續小五義) and many others, with Lu Xun in 1924 counting 24 sequels. An explosion of copycat novels also flooded the market in the last years of the 19th century, assuming similar titles such as In a 1909 essay, writer Shi An (石菴) lamented the cheapness of