Short Story•Modernist Literature•Coming of Age
Araby (Excerpts)
James Joyce(1914)
Language: English
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Selected passages from Joyce's evocative short story about youth and disillusionment.
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North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set the boys free.
An uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground.
The other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces.
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James Joyce
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North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set the boys free.
An uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground.
The other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces.
The former tenant of our house, a priest, had died in the back drawing-room.
Air, musty from having been long enclosed, hung in all the rooms, and the waste room behind the kitchen was littered with old useless papers.