The dead

64 pages

English language

Published July 15, 2004 by Melville House Pub..

ISBN:
978-0-9749609-0-6
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OCLC Number:
56753411

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"The Dead" is the final short story in the 1914 collection Dubliners by James Joyce.

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13 editions

reviewed The Dead by Richard Ellmann (Case studies in contemporary criticism)

Review of 'The Dead' on 'Goodreads'

Rarely does a story of roughly 40 pages pack such an emotional, philosophically-layered punch, but Joyce's clever use of lulling the reader into a sense of the mundane makes the conclusion all the more powerful.

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Subjects

  • Family reunions -- Fiction
  • Dublin (Ireland) -- Fiction