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 Five Younger Gallants 1879 novel was not authentic as it was noticeably different from the "original draft" he received. In "A Brief History of Chinese Fiction", Lu Xun wrote (as translated by Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang): One of the prefaces, dated "the first month of witner of 1890", suggestively includes the name Boyin (伯寅), Pan Zuyin's courtesy name, but as Pan died on December 11, 1890, it was unlikely his work. In addition, Bai Yunsheng appears in the 1970 Hong Kong film "The Winged Tiger". The Five Younger Gallants The Five Younger Gallants (小五義) is a 1890 Chinese novel and the best