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A Little Cloud

By James Joyce
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Selected from his iconic collection set in Dublin, modernist Irish writer James Joyce brings the city and all its characters alive in six affecting, atmospheric stories. Relationships old and new, real and imagined are put to the test in Eveline and Araby. In A Little Cloud,... Read More
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Six stories about men and women in Dublin from the city’s most celebrated writer. One of ten pocket-sized paperbacks from Macmillan Collector’s Library celebrating the art of the short story.

Six stories about men and women in Dublin. One of ten pocket-sized paperbacks from Macmillan Collector's Library celebrating the art of the short story.

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Selected from his iconic collection set in Dublin, modernist Irish writer James Joyce brings the city and all its characters alive in six affecting, atmospheric stories.

Relationships old and new, real and imagined are put to the test in Eveline and Araby. In A Little Cloud, a young father reflects on his life as he sits in a pub with an old friend, fresh from travels abroad. Could he have done any better with his lot? A Painful Case sees a discreet and measured affair run its course, resurfacing one evening as a self-righteous memory. In these stories and more, Joyce examines what it means to be human, in all of its sadness and glory.

This series of pocket-sized paperbacks celebrates the art of the short story and marks Macmillan Collector's Library's 10th anniversary. Each contains a curated selection of short stories from a literary giant: Katherine Mansfield, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allen Poe, Oscar Wilde, Jane Austen, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Alice Dunbar Nelson, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Rabindranath Tagore.

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ISBN: 9781037403460

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 September 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Macmillan

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 111.0mm

Height: 162.0mm

Weight: 90g

Pages: 112

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About the Author

James Joyce was born in 1882. The young Joyce attended Clongowes College, Belvedere College and, eventually, University College, Dublin. In 1904 he met Nora Barnacle and eloped with her to Croatia. From this point onwards, Joyce lived in self-imposed exile, moving from Trieste to Rome, and then to Zurich and Paris. His major works are Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922) and Finnegan's Wake (1939). He died in 1941, having gained a reputation as one of the world's greatest novelists.

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