Dubliners is a 1914 collection of short stories about various residents of Dublin written by James Joyce. It was his first published work and is much less experimental than Ulysses, although still a masterpiece. The stories are interrelated, although no one character repeats. But the first and last stories (especially the last one) can be very easily interpereted as being about early versions of Stephen Dedalus, the main character of his first novel, A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man. The collection consists of the following fifteen short stories: