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Stephens's first collection of short stories revolves about the often nameless clerks, typists, and office supervisors of middle-class Dublin. The 19 stories include 'Women, ' 'Three Heavy Husbands, ' 'A Glass of Beer, ' 'One and One, ' 'Three Women Who Wept, ' 'The Triangle, ' The Daisies, ' 'Three Angry People, ' 'The Threepenny Piece, ' and 'Brigid.'He had a high nose. He looked at one over the collar, so to speak. His regard was very assured, and his speech was that short bundle of monosyllables which the subaltern throws at the orderly. He had never been questioned, and, the precedent being absent, he had never questioned himself. Why should he? We live by question and answer, but we do not know the reply to anything until a puzzled comrade bothers us and initiates that divine curiosity which both humbles and up

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