An Encounter
Narrated by John Young
Three boys skip school for a day of adventure in Dublin. They cross the river, watch the ships, and walk out to the Pigeon House. Then, in a quiet field, an old man comes...
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James Joyce
The Irish modernist who wrote Dubliners and Ulysses.
1882–1941 LiteraryChildren's Story
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About James Joyce
James Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet. Dubliners (1914), his book of stories about ordinary lives in Dublin, includes "Araby" and "An Encounter." His later novels Ulysses and Finnegans Wake changed what a novel could do.
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Araby
Narrated by Jason Michael Mann
A boy in Dublin is in love with his friend's older sister. He barely speaks to her. When she mentions a bazaar called Araby, which she cannot attend, he promises to go an...
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