The Missing Link Project: Dubliners by James Joyce

The linkages in James Joyce's Dubliners are a bit harder to see than those of some of the modern linked story collections or even its near-contemporary, Winesburg, Ohio. Instead of continuing or overlapping characters, the primary connector in this book is thematic. The setting also brings these stories together—mostly they provide glimpses into working class Dublin—but the real link is that they examine the morality of the Dubliners.

Several of the stories are familiar, most notably "The Dead...