The Dead is is the last story, and the longest from James Joyce's 1914 short stories collection: Dubliners. It is longer than the rest, being more like a novella. It is considered one of the classics of Irish literature, and possibly the best literary short fiction in the English language.

Dubliners is a rich and generous story and though Joyce was considered a pioneer of modernist literature, with his 1922 novel Ulysses and especially with Finnegans Wake in 1939.

Joyce left Ireland in 1904 and lived abroad in Trieste, Switzerland and Paris and never really lived in Dublin again but his books and all his writing are set among the people and places he grew up amongst.

See a full analysis and summary here: https://www.ghostpod.org/2022/11/05/the-dead-by-james-joyce-analysis/

This audio book reading is by Tony Walker of The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast.  

It was made into a film in 1987, by John Huston starring Anjelica Huston and Donal McCann. 

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Visit the Website For Story Notes
https://www.ghostpod.org/2022/11/05/the-dead-by-james-joyce-analysis/

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