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
The Man Upstairs (short story collection) The Man Upstairs (short story collection) The Man Upstairs is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 23 January 1914 by Methuen & Co., London. Most of the stories had previously appeared in magazines, generally "Strand Magazine" in the UK and "Cosmopolitan" or "Collier's Weekly" in the United States. Although the book was not published in the US, many of the stories were eventually made available to US readers in "The Uncollected Wodehouse" (1976) and "The Swoop! and Other Stories" (1979) It is a miscellaneous collection, not featuring any of Wodehouse's