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James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 - 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. CLAY: The matron had given her leave to go out as soon as the women's tea was over and Maria looked forward to her evening out. The kitchen was spick and span: the cook said you could see yourself in the big copper boilers.

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

A landmark modern classic about the Korean American immigrant experience and the dawn of Los Angeles’s Koreatown A Penguin Classic Kim Ronyoung (Gloria Hahn, 1926–1987) tells the story of Haesu and Chun, immigrants who fled Japanese-occupied Korea for Los Angeles in the decade prior to...

"Arcilla" es la historia de Maria, una mujer que cria a los ninos de una familia y anos despus va a pasar la Fiesta de todos los Santos con uno de ellos, ya adulto. Mara es un personaje que parece desconectado de la realidad; soltera y mayor, Mara representa a una mujer irlandesa ignorante y humilde. El nombre Arcilla, viene del elemento usado por Maria para jugar con los ninos. La arcilla, representa la muerte en la cultura irlandesa. Maria puede morir pronto.