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 Breaking Point (short story collection) she wrote herself back to sanity". The original book had illustrations before each story by Margot Tomes. The Breaking Point (short story collection) The Breaking Point is a collection of eight short stories by Daphne du Maurier first published in 1959 by Victor Gollancz in the UK and Doubleday in the US. It has also been published under the title The Blue Lenses and Other Stories. The stories were written at a time when du Maurier herself came close to a severe nervous breakdown and reflect her own psychological stress. Du Maurier herself acknowledged she had come close to madness