Araby (short story) 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 neighbourhood leave much to be desired, the children’s play is infused with their almost magical way of perceiving the world, which
Contemplation (short story collection) Contemplation (short story collection) Betrachtung (published in English as Meditation or Contemplation) is a collection of eighteen short stories by Franz Kafka written between 1904 and 1912. It was Kafka's first published book, printed at the end of 1912 (with the publication year given as "1913") in the "Rowohlt Verlag" on an initiative by Kurt Wolff. Eight of these stories were published before under the title "Betrachtungen" ("Contemplations") in the bimonthly "Hyperion". The collection "Description of a Struggle", published in 1958, includes some of the stories In English, in whole or in part. All the stories appear in "The Complete