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
Les Diaboliques (short story collection) for its seizure on the grounds of blasphemy and obscenity. D'Aurevilly defended the work, albeit tongue-in-cheek, by saying that he himself was a Christian and the stories demonstrated the battle of good against evil. A second edition was published in 1882. Dedalus Books published an English-language version in 1996. Les Diaboliques (short story collection) Les Diaboliques ("The She-Devils") is a collection of short stories written by Barbey d'Aurevilly and published in France in 1874. Each story features a woman who commits an act of violence, or revenge, or some other crime. It is considered d'Aurevilly's masterpiece. D'Aurevilly, due to the