{"_id":"6292c393fa5c01e51eff5fbd","title":"A Painful Case","publish_year":1914,"publish_source":"Dubliners","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/dubliners00joycrich/page/130/mode/2up","author":"James Joyce","code":"a-painful-case","words":3618,"image":"petersburg.jpg","image_alt":"A 20th century city with trams and horse-drawn carriages. Graphite filter.","genres":["literary","tragedy"],"blurb":"Captain Sinico encouraged his visits, thinking that his daughter’s hand was in question. He had dismissed his wife so sincerely from his gallery of pleasures that he did not suspect that anyone else would take an interest in her.","description":"A single man strikes up a conversation with a woman whose daughter is his own age. But the man and the older woman find more interest in each other.","has_review":false,"has_collections":false}