Araby (short story) into confusing his emergent sexual impulses for those of honor and chivalry, and brought about disillusionment and a loss of innocence. 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
Saints and Sinners (short story collection) his lady loves." "Saints and Sinners" won the 2011 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. Saints and Sinners (short story collection) Saints and Sinners is a short story collection by Edna O'Brien. Faber and Faber published it in 2011. The collection includes the O'Brien story "Sinners" in which a lonely widow running an isolated rural bed and breakfast overhears the sexual antics of a man, woman and teenage girl who on arrival claim to be couple and daughter - "Then came the exclamations, the three pitches of sound so different -- the woman's loud and gloating, the girl's, helpless, as