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
Family Ties (short story collection) Family Ties (short story collection) Family Ties ("Laços de família" in Portuguese) is a 1960 short story collection by the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector. "Family Ties" consists of thirteen short stories. "Family Ties" was published in 1960, after the Lispector's permanent return to Brazil from the United States. Several of the stories were written between 1943 and 1945. Lispector wrote "O jantar" in 1943. It was first published in the Rio de Janeiro newspaper "A manh" in October 1946. The story "O Crime do professor de matemática", was published, in an earlier version, as "O Crime", in 1945 in another