Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Dead | 1914 | James Joyce | Buy |
| 2 | The Boarding House | 1914 | James Joyce | Buy |
| 3 | Two Gallants | 1914 | James Joyce | Buy |
| 4 | Araby | 1914 | James Joyce | Buy |
| 5 | Exiles: A Play in Three Acts | 1918 | James Joyce | Buy |
| 6 | The Cats of Copenhagen | 1936 | James Joyce | Buy |
| 7 | The Cat and the Devil | 1965 | James Joyce | Buy |
James Joyce’s shorter fiction includes several individual stories from Dubliners that have been published separately. The Dead (1914) is the most famous of these, a story about a dinner party that ends with a quiet revelation about love and loss. Araby, The Boarding House, and Two Gallants are among the other Dubliners stories that have been widely reprinted on their own.
Beyond Dubliners, Joyce wrote Exiles: A Play in Three Acts (1918), his only play, which deals with themes of jealousy and freedom in a marriage. The Cats of Copenhagen (1936) and The Cat and the Devil (1965) are shorter pieces, the latter a children’s story Joyce wrote in a letter to his grandson. These works show different sides of Joyce’s writing beyond the novels for which he is best known.