Dubliners Richard Ellmann has argued, "Joyce claims importance by claiming nothing" His characters' personalities can only be observed because they are not explicitly told. The collection progresses chronologically, beginning with stories of youth and progressing in age to culminate in "The Dead". Emphasis is laid upon the specific geographic details of Dublin, for example, road names and buildings feature extensively. 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
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