Dubliners 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 written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences. They centre on Joyce's idea of an epiphany: a moment where a character experiences a life-changing self-understanding or illumination. Many of the characters in
Shakespeare's Memory (short story collection) Shakespeare's Memory (short story collection) Shakespeare's Memory (original Spanish title: ) is a short story collection published in 1983 that collects the last stories by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, which had been published in diverse mediums, such as the national newspapers "La Nación" and "Clarín". It was published three years before the author's death. An English translation of the stories by Andrew Hurley was published in "Collected Fictions". The collection contains only four short stories, making it Borges' shortest anthology. These are (original titles in italics): "August 25, 1983", the first story of the collection, is about Borges encountering