The first products of Joyce’s maturity, these stories look sideways to the tender realism of Chekhov and forward to Joyce’s later work Portrait of the Artist . In the most celebrated tale, The Dead , the author constructs the first of his poetic monologues. In this edition are published for the first time the original versions of Eveline , The Sisters and After the Race , which, appearing beside the canonical versions, give the reader an insight into Joyce’s working methods.