Can you name the short stories in the collection Dubliners by James Joyce?

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After the priest Father Flynn dies, a young boy who was close to him and his family deal with it only superficially.
Two schoolboys playing truant encounter an elderly man.
A boy falls in love with the sister of his friend, but fails in his quest to buy her a worthy gift from the Araby bazaar.
A young woman abandons her plans to leave Ireland with a sailor.
College student Jimmy Doyle tries to fit in with his wealthy friends.
Two con men, Lenehan and Corley, find a maid who is willing to steal from her employer.
Mrs. Mooney successfully manoeuvres her daughter Polly into an upwardly mobile marriage with her lodger Mr. Doran.
Little Chandler's dinner with his old friend Ignatius Gallaher casts fresh light on his own failed literary dreams.
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Farrington, a lumbering alcoholic Irish scrivener, takes out his frustration in pubs and on his son Tom.
The old maid Maria, a laundress, celebrates Halloween with her former foster child Joe Donnelly and his family.
Mr. Duffy rebuffs Mrs. Sinico, then four years later realizes he has condemned her to loneliness and death.
Minor Irish politicians fail to live up to the memory of Charles Stewart Parnell.
Mrs. Kearney tries to win a place of pride for her daughter, Kathleen, in the Irish cultural movement, by starring her in a series of concerts, but ultimately fails.
After Mr. Kernan injures himself falling down the stairs in a bar, his friends try to reform him through Catholicism.
Gabriel Conroy attends a party, and later, as he speaks with his wife, has an epiphany about the nature of life and death.
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Short Stories in 'Dubliners' Quiz

  1. by NorwegianSalmon
  • Created Dec 17, 2011 in Literature
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