Dubliners Richard Ellmann has argued, "Joyce claims importance by claiming nothing" His characters' personalities can only be observed because they are not explicitly told. The collection progresses chronologically, beginning with stories of youth and progressing in age to culminate in "The Dead". Emphasis is laid upon the specific geographic details of Dublin, for example, road names and buildings feature extensively. Dubliners Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were
I Sing the Body Electric (short story collection) Sing the Body Electric!", was adapted from a 1962 "Twilight Zone" episode of the same name, which Bradbury had written. It was later adapted as a 1982 television movie, "The Electric Grandmother", starring Maureen Stapleton. I Sing the Body Electric (short story collection) I Sing the Body Electric! is a 1969 collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury. The book takes its name from an included short story of the same title, which in turn took the title from a poem by Walt Whitman published in his collection "Leaves of Grass". The collection includes these stories: In 1998, Avon Books