{"_id":"6292c393fa5c01e51eff5fb5","title":"Araby","publish_year":1914,"publish_source":"Dubliners","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/dubliners00joycrich/page/32/mode/2up","author":"James Joyce","code":"araby","words":2329,"image":"petersburg.jpg","image_alt":"A 20th century city with trams and horse-drawn carriages. Graphite filter.","genres":["literary","tragedy"],"blurb":"At night in my bedroom and by day in the classroom her image came between me and the page I strove to read. The syllables of the word Araby were called to me through the silence in which my soul luxuriated and cast an Eastern enchantment over me.","description":"A young boy is obsessed with his friend’s sister and follows her around with little confidence in speaking to her. When she expresses disappointment at not being free to go to the ‘Araby’ bazaar, the boy promises to go himself and buy her something.","rating":3,"has_review":false,"has_collections":[{"code":"romance","title":"A Short Romance","collection_type":"theme"}]}