This collection of short stories depicts the lives of Dublin's residents, exploring themes of paralysis, epiphany, and the quest for meaning in everyday life.
This includes "The Snows of Kilmanjaro" (D1-47:34), "The Old Man and the Sea (D2-3-143:19), Ernest Hemingway's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech (D4), "Second Poem to Mary" (D4), "In Harry's Bar in Venice" (D4), "The Fifth Column" (D4), "Work in Progress" (D4), and "Saturday Night at the Whorehouse in Billings, Montana" (D4; 45:15).
This collection includes "Floating Bridge", "Family Furnishings", "Comfort", "Nettles", "Post and Beam" "What is Remembered", "Queenie" and "Bear Came over the Mountain".
This collection includes "Killing", "The Family Meadow", "The Orphaned Swimming Pool", "A & P", "Gesturing", "Snowing in Greenwich Village", "The Bulgarian Poetess", "The Persistence of Desire", "The Man who Loved Extinct Mammals", "Lifeguard", "Your Lover just Called", and "Ace in the Hole.
This collection includes "Rip van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", "The Spectre Bridegroom", "The Adventure of the German Student", "The Devil and Tom Walker", "The Adventure of the Mason", "Legend of the Rose of Alhambra", "The Governor and the Notary", and "Governor Manco and the Soldier".
Washington Irving visited Al Hambra and combined myths, descriptions and actual history of what he called a "picturesque and beautiful city", a city that has often been a site of conflict between Muslims and Christians.
These selections from William Falkner include "A Rose for Emily", "Spotted Horses", "Barn Burning", "As I Lay Dying" and his 1949 Nobel Prize acceptance speech