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 Best American Short Stories 2019: In 2000, John Updike selected twenty-two unabridged stories from the first eighty-four annual volumes of "The Best American Short Stories", and the result is "The Best American Short Stories of the Century". The expanded CD audio edition includes a new story from "The Best American Short Stories 1999" to round out the century. In 2015, Lorrie Moore served as the guest editor for a centennial anthology from the series, "100 Years of The Best American Short Stories". Official Sources (plain text and HTML) Other The Best American Short Stories The Best American Short Stories yearly anthology is a part