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Article: Paradigm lost: "Grace" and the arrangement of "Dubliners."(Special "Dubliners" Number)
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- Studies in Short Fiction
- Article date:
- June 22, 1995
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In late September 1905 James Joyce wrote from Trieste to his brother Stanislaus in Dublin, requesting (as ever) some personal favors and describing for the first time his plan for arranging the short stories that would eventually become Dubliners in a coherent sequence:
The order of the stories is as follows. The Sisters, An Encounter and
another story ["Araby"] which are stories of my childhood: The
Boarding House, After the Race and Eveline, which arc stories of
adolescence: The Clay, Counterparts, and A Painful Case which are
stories of mature life: Ivy Day in the Committee Room, A Mother
and the last story ...