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 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: