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
James Joyce (biography) and digested the whole of it—except perhaps my friend Richard Ellmann." Ellmann quotes extensively from "Finnegans Wake" as epigraphs in his biography of Joyce. James Joyce (biography) James Joyce by Richard Ellmann was published in 1959 (a revised edition was released in 1982). It provides an intimate and detailed account of the life of Irish modernist James Joyce, which informs an understanding of this author's complex works. Anthony Burgess was so impressed with the biographer's work that he claimed it to be "the greatest literary biography of the century." Edna O'Brien, the Irish novelist, remarked that "H. G. Wells said