Showing results for "Eveline" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

For Eveline, it was a nearly transforming experience to be in love. Frank had booked passage for the two to leave Ireland for Buenos Aires as husband and wife. As Eveline looks forward to the day of her leaving, she begins to think of her dead mother and the family she would be leaving behind. This short story allows us to consider the thoughts that are in conflict for the young lady. How will she respond and what will she decide? A classic story narrated by Glenn Hascall.

"Eveline" is a short story from James Joyce's classic Dubliners. Nineteen-year-old Eveline has decided to leave home, but her future journey may not be all that she hopes. Like other stories in Dubliners,"Eveline" offers a penetrating analysis of Dublin society, especially its stagnation and paralysis. Each story incorporates epiphanies, by which Joyce meant to convey a sudden consciousness of the "soul" of a thing. Proceeds from sale of this title go to Reach Out and Read, an innovative literacy advocacy organization.

This is a story from the Dubliners, Volume 1 collection.

It was at a masked ball at the Palais Royal that my fatal quarrel with my first cousin André de Brissac began. The quarrel was about a woman. The women who followed the footsteps of Philip of Orleans were the causes of many such disputes; and there was scarcely one fair head in all that glittering throng which might not have seemed bedabbled with blood.

Nau ist die Urmutter des Menschengeschlechts. Aus Liebe zu ihr wird Rëu, der Wal, zum Menschen und zeugt mit ihr Waljunge und Menschenkinder. Rëu ist sterblich, ebenso alle folgenden Generationen. Nur Nau bleibt am Leben, sie gibt das Wissen von der Abstammung der Menschen und von der Verehrung der Wale weiter. Diese poetische Schöpfungslegende der Tschuktschen von der ursprünglichen Gemeinschaft von Mensch und Wal, von der Einheit von Mensch und Natur, ist zugleich eine Vorahnung der Fragen und Probleme unserer Zeit.