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 Evening News (short story collection) Hardylike sway, all narrated in a variety of inventive and accomplished voices." -Tom Dowling of the "San Francisco Examiner" "Ardizzone's stories also have a political bite to them, adding a deepened dimension, a fuller realization to his characters and giving them a particular social context often missing in other young writers." -David E. Anderson from "The Seattle Times" The Evening News (short story collection) The Evening News is Tony Ardizzone's first collection of stories, and winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. The collection is a small press book published in 1986 by the University of Georgia Press.