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    A Study Guide for James Joyce's "Araby"
    A Study Guide for James Joyce's "Araby"
    A Study Guide for James Joyce's "Araby"
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    A Study Guide for James Joyce's "Araby"

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    A Study Guide for James Joyce's "Araby," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJun 27, 2016
    ISBN9781535818636
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      Araby

      James Joyce

      1914

      Introduction

      Araby is one of fifteen short stories that together make up James Joyce’s collection, Dubliners. Although Joyce wrote the stories between 1904 and 1906, they were not published until 1914. Dubliners paints a portrait of life in Dublin, Ireland, at the turn of the twentieth century. Its stories are arranged in an order reflecting the development of a child into a grown man. The first three stories are told from the point of view of a young boy, the next three from the point of view of an adolescent, and so on. Araby is the last story of the first set, and is told from the perspective of a boy just on the verge of adolescence. The story takes its title from a real festival which came to Dublin in 1894 when Joyce was twelve years

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