In a story by this author, a man runs into the wife of a mercantile boat captain at three different concerts before arranging to meet each other. Another story by this author ends as a girl clutches an iron railing and looks at her lover with “no sign of love or farewell or recognition.” A man in a story by this author described as an “outcast from life’s feast” reads a newspaper article about the death of a woman who once pressed his hand to her cheek. This author wrote a story whose title character recalls her (*) promise to her dying mother and decides against immigrating to Buenos Aires with Frank. The narrator of a story by this author sees himself as “a creature driven and derided by vanity” after failing to obtain a gift for Mangan’s sister at the title bazaar. For 10 points, name this author whose stories “A Painful Case” and “Eveline” appear alongside “Araby” in his collection Dubliners. ■END■
ANSWER: James Joyce [or James Augustine Aloysius Joyce]
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