Grace (short story) Grace (short story) "Grace" is a short story by James Joyce written toward the end of 1905 and published in his 1914 collection "Dubliners." The story begins with an unconscious man who has fallen down the stairs in a pub after heavy drinking. A friend of his, Mr. Power, finds him, reveals him to be named Tom Kernan, and takes him home to his wife. Kernan is a salesman who once possessed an easy charm and manner but has since descended into alcoholism. An injury to his tongue sustained during the fall keeps Kernan in bed. Two days later, he
The Pyramid (short story collection) The Pyramid (short story collection) The Pyramid (orig. Swedish "Pyramiden") is a collection of five short stories by Swedish crime fiction author Henning Mankell, first published in Sweden in 1999 and translated into English in 2008. It features his best-known character, police inspector Kurt Wallander. While it was written after the 8th novel, "Firewall", the events depicted in "The Pyramid" take place well before "Faceless Killers", making it chronologically the first in the series. The first story takes place in 1969 while the last occurs in 1989-90. The English translation of the titles for each of the short stories is: