Counterparts (short story) youngest son, Tom, to make dinner but as the child lets the fire in the kitchen go out, Farrington's rage explodes and he starts beating the little child with a walking stick. The story ends with Tom pleading for mercy. For Joyce's contemporaneous audience, the term "counterparts" could be expected to suggest (hand-written) duplicate copies of documents concerning the office's business. Counterparts (short story) "Counterparts" is a short story by James Joyce published in his 1914 collection "Dubliners". The story recounts an evening in the life of a man named Farrington, frequently referred to simply as "the man". Farrington’s difficulties
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