Counterparts (short story) youngest son, Tom, to make dinner but as the child lets the fire in the kitchen go out, Farrington's rage explodes and he starts beating the little child with a walking stick. The story ends with Tom pleading for mercy. For Joyce's contemporaneous audience, the term "counterparts" could be expected to suggest (hand-written) duplicate copies of documents concerning the office's business. Counterparts (short story) "Counterparts" is a short story by James Joyce published in his 1914 collection "Dubliners". The story recounts an evening in the life of a man named Farrington, frequently referred to simply as "the man". Farrington’s difficulties
The Wall (short story collection) Fascist youth organisation and attacking/punching a Jewish man who is reading "l'Humanité", with his friends. The 1967 film "The Wall" is based on the story of the same name. The Wall (short story collection) The Wall () by Jean-Paul Sartre, a collection of short stories published in 1939 containing the eponymous story "The Wall," is considered one of the author's greatest existentialist works of fiction. Sartre dedicated the book to his companion Olga Kosakiewicz, a former student of Simone de Beauvoir. The eponymous story coldly depicts a situation in which prisoners are condemned to death. Written in 1939, the story