Grace (short story) Grace (short story) "Grace" is a short story by James Joyce written toward the end of 1905 and published in his 1914 collection "Dubliners." The story begins with an unconscious man who has fallen down the stairs in a pub after heavy drinking. A friend of his, Mr. Power, finds him, reveals him to be named Tom Kernan, and takes him home to his wife. Kernan is a salesman who once possessed an easy charm and manner but has since descended into alcoholism. An injury to his tongue sustained during the fall keeps Kernan in bed. Two days later, he
Contemplation (short story collection) Contemplation (short story collection) Betrachtung (published in English as Meditation or Contemplation) is a collection of eighteen short stories by Franz Kafka written between 1904 and 1912. It was Kafka's first published book, printed at the end of 1912 (with the publication year given as "1913") in the "Rowohlt Verlag" on an initiative by Kurt Wolff. Eight of these stories were published before under the title "Betrachtungen" ("Contemplations") in the bimonthly "Hyperion". The collection "Description of a Struggle", published in 1958, includes some of the stories In English, in whole or in part. All the stories appear in "The Complete