Dubliners Richard Ellmann has argued, "Joyce claims importance by claiming nothing" His characters' personalities can only be observed because they are not explicitly told. The collection progresses chronologically, beginning with stories of youth and progressing in age to culminate in "The Dead". Emphasis is laid upon the specific geographic details of Dublin, for example, road names and buildings feature extensively. Dubliners Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were
La Maison Tellier (short story collection) the publishing company. The collection was also re-published in an augmented edition a decade later in 1891 with publisher Paul Ollendorff. It included the same set of stories and an additional short story titled "Les Tombales". </small>(date of publication in parenthesis)</small> The 1891 edition included nine stories, eight from the original book and a new short story published in 1891 in the periodical "Gil Blas" and placed as the second story in the collection immediately after "La Maison Tellier", "Les Tombales" (1891). La Maison Tellier (short story collection) La Maison Tellier is a collection of short stories by Guy de