Clay (short story) in a time of religious and political turmoil in Ireland. At the time that "Clay" was written there was a divide among the Irish between those of the Catholic faith and those of the Protestant faith. Clay (short story) "Clay" is a short story by James Joyce published in his 1914 collection "Dubliners." It is important to note that due to this short story being left intentionally vague by its author, there can be numerous interpretations on what occurs in the story and the analysis of it. Maria, an elderly woman with a job in a rescue mission for wayward
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