/lit/ - Literature

>>20452813
I don't wanna be too pedantic about it, expecially since it doesn't really concern the qualities of the texts itself but it's rather about the historiographic behind them: the dead, the two gallants and a little cloud were the three short stories that were actually added later. To be precise, he wrote (and added) them after he first submitted an early version of Dubliners to various publishers in 1907. Making the overall structure of the book shift from an initial 4x3 (4 childhood stories, 4 youth ones and 4 for the adult cycle) to a 3+4+4+3. So the short stories that were added amplified the central section (the adult one) while the last three deal with people public lives.