Eveline and makes the painful decision not to leave with him. Nonetheless, her face registers no emotion at all. Like other tales in "Dubliners", such as "Araby", "Eveline" features a circular journey, where a character decides to go back to where their journey began and where the result of their journey is disappointment and reluctance to travel. Eveline "Eveline" is a short story by the Irish writer James Joyce. It was first published in 1904 by the journal "Irish Homestead" and later featured in his 1914 collection of short stories "Dubliners". A young woman, Eveline, of about nineteen years of age
The Seven Heroes and Five Gallants Trap" that the heroes and gallants set out to destroy in the 1879 original was still not destroyed by the end of the book. Instead, the novel ends on a cliff-hanger to entice its readers to purchase the next installment, which was published in 1891 as "The Sequel to the Five Younger Gallants" (續小五義). Both sequels enjoyed huge readership and were reprinted many times. Lu Xun believed "these works were written by many hands... resulting in numerous inconsistencies." Two alternative sequels to the original novel are: Shi Duo in his preface to "The Sequel to the Five Younger Gallants" denounced