The Sisters (short story) with paresis (general paralysis of the insane) when Joyce began his revisions in 1905. The priest having suffered from a sexually transmitted infection would help account for the adult society's negative opinion and disdain for him. The Sisters (short story) "The Sisters" is a short story by James Joyce, the first of a series of short stories called "Dubliners". Originally published in the "Irish Homestead" on 13 August 1904, "The Sisters" was Joyce's first published work of fiction. Joyce later revised the story and had it, along with the rest of the series, published in book form in 1914. ″The
Family Ties (short story collection) Family Ties (short story collection) Family Ties ("Laços de família" in Portuguese) is a 1960 short story collection by the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector. "Family Ties" consists of thirteen short stories. "Family Ties" was published in 1960, after the Lispector's permanent return to Brazil from the United States. Several of the stories were written between 1943 and 1945. Lispector wrote "O jantar" in 1943. It was first published in the Rio de Janeiro newspaper "A manh" in October 1946. The story "O Crime do professor de matemática", was published, in an earlier version, as "O Crime", in 1945 in another