My People (short story collection) My People (short story collection) My People is a collection of short stories by Caradoc Evans, first published in 1915 by Andrew Melrose and highly controversial at the time. It is subtitled "Stories of the Peasantry of West Wales". The work has been compared with Sherwood Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio", James Joyce's "Dubliners" (which came out a year earlier although after the text of "My People" had been completed and submitted to - and rejected by - Stanley Unwin), and "The House with the Green Shutters" by George Douglas Brown. In its context of early 20th century Nonconformism, the book was
The Idiots (short story) The Idiots (short story) "The Idiots" is a short story by Joseph Conrad, his first to be published. It first appeared in "The Savoy" in 1896. The story was included in the Conrad collection "Tales of Unrest", published in 1898. Set in Britanny, the story describes a couple whose children have intellectual disability; the strain on the family leads eventually to murder. The story was written during Joseph Conrad's honeymoon; he rented a house on Île-Grande, on the north coast of Brittany, from April to August 1896. His wife Jessie later wrote that "much of our Île-Grande life is in