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 Throne of Saturn (short story collection) The Throne of Saturn (short story collection) The Throne of Saturn is a collection of science fiction short stories by author S. Fowler Wright. It was released in 1949 and was the author's first American book and his only collection published by Arkham House. It was released in an edition of 3,062 copies. The book is an expansion of "The New Gods Lead" published by Jarrolds in 1932 by the addition of two stories. "The Throne of Saturn" contains these twelve stories, as well as a foreword: Boucher and McComas described the 1949 edition as "twelve superb short stories of