Dubliners

Stories in this collection

15 stories

• The SistersA boy tries to understand the death of a priest and the unsettling fragments adults leave unexplained.
• An EncounterTwo schoolboys escape the classroom in search of adventure and meet a disturbing stranger.
• ArabyA boy invests a trip to a bazaar with the promise of romance and a larger world.
• EvelineA young woman weighs the possibility of escape against the claims of home, duty and memory.
• After the RaceA young Dubliner joins wealthy international companions for an exhilarating evening of money and display.
• Two GallantsTwo men’s talk of romance reveals a harsher economy of favors, manipulation and need.
• The Boarding HouseA landlady considers how to turn a relationship under her roof into a respectable arrangement.
• A Little CloudA reunion with a successful friend leaves a clerk measuring his domestic life against his literary ambitions.
• CounterpartsA humiliated office worker carries his frustration through an evening of drinking and back into his home.
• ClayA quiet woman’s Halloween visit exposes the small rituals and silences surrounding her place in other people’s lives.
• A Painful CaseA solitary man’s brief friendship returns to trouble the order he has made of his life.
• Ivy Day in the Committee RoomElection workers talk politics, loyalty and disappointment while waiting for the day to pass.
• A MotherA determined mother’s efforts to protect her daughter’s musical engagement collide with unreliable organizers.
• GraceFriends propose a spiritual fresh start for a man whose drinking has brought him to an embarrassing fall.
• The DeadA winter party brings Gabriel Conroy face to face with the private depths of a familiar life.