Araby (short story) into confusing his emergent sexual impulses for those of honor and chivalry, and brought about disillusionment and a loss of innocence. Araby (short story) "Araby" is a short story by James Joyce published in his 1914 collection "Dubliners." Through first-person narration, the reader is immersed at the start of the story in the drab life that people live on North Richmond Street, which seems to be illuminated only by the verve and imagination of the children who, despite the growing darkness that comes during the winter months, insist on playing "until [their] bodies glowed." Even though the conditions of this
While the Billy Boils (short story collection) While the Billy Boils (short story collection) While the Billy Boils is a collection of short stories by the Australian writer Henry Lawson, published by Angus and Robertson in 1896. It includes "The Drover's Wife", "On the Edge of a Plain", and "The Union Buries Its Dead". The collection consists of 52 short stories from a variety of sources. Some are published here for the first time. A reviewer in "The Queenslander" found much to like about the book but also noted its limitations: "..most of the sketches can best be described as "Bulletinesque," the evidence of their having been