| There are fifteen stories in
Dubliners, however they can be grouped into four divisions
As early as 1905 Joyce had established a four-fold division of three
stories each for Dubliners. This structure changed somewhat as the number
of stories grew. In the first chronological division, childhood,
there are three stories:
The Sisters - written in 1904 and first published
that same year in the Irish Homestead under Joyce's pseudonym, Stephen
Daedalus.
An Encounter - written in 1905
Araby - written in 1905
The second division, adolescence, includes four stories:
Eveline - composed in 1904
After the Race - also composed in 1904
Two Gallants - written in 1905-06
The Boarding House - written in 1905.
The third group, maturity, consistes of four stories:
A Little Cloud - composed in 1906
Counterparts - written at the same time as "The Boarding House" in
1905
Clay - composed in 1905-06
A Painful Case - written in 1905
The fourth and last division, public life, consists of:
Ivy Day in the Committee Room - written in 1905
A Mother - written in 1905
Grace - written in 1905
The Dead - written in 1906-07.
Notes from:
"James Joyce A to Z" - An Encyclopaedic Guide to his life and work
by A. Nicholas Fargnoli & Michael Patrick Gillespie
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing (c) 1995
ISBN 0747524092 |
