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
Shakespeare's Memory (short story collection) between faith and incredulity. And finally, the titular story "Shakespeare's Memory" (Borges' very last story) is about a man who is given the memory of William Shakespeare, enabling him to peer into the playwright's most secret thoughts, but also overloading him to the point of slowly forgetting his own life. Borges got the idea for this last story when, at eighty years of age, he dreamed that a faceless man offered him the memory of Shakespeare in a hotel room. Shakespeare's Memory (short story collection) Shakespeare's Memory (original Spanish title: ) is a short story collection published in 1983 that