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
The Suicide Club (short story collection) The Suicide Club (short story collection) The Suicide Club is a collection of three 19th century detective fiction short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson that combine to form a single narrative. First published in the "London Magazine "in 1878, they were collected and republished in the first volume of the "New Arabian Nights". The trilogy introduces the characters of Prince Florizel of Bohemia and his sidekick Colonel Geraldine. In this cycle they infiltrate a secret society of people intent on losing their lives. It has been described as: "The Prince’s investigation of the macabre club and its criminally inclined president