The Boarding House The Boarding House "The Boarding House" is a short story by James Joyce published in his 1914 collection "Dubliners." Mrs. Mooney, separated from her husband, a butcher who descended into alcoholism, runs a boarding house for working men. Her daughter Polly entertains the boarders by singing and flirting with them. Mrs. Mooney learns that her daughter is having an affair with Mr. Doran, a man in his mid-thirties who has worked in a Catholic wine-merchant’s office for many years. On Sunday nights Polly, Mrs. Mooney's daughter, would sing with the various guests in the boarding house. It is noted that
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