The Dead and Other Stories

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The Dead and Other Stories

The Dead and Other Stories

2018-02-20 The Dead and Other Stories

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Geline said Fine collection. The editor has assembled informative and engrossing essays that illuminate The Dead. Gosh, Joyce always makes me desperate, and I'm Irish. Dive too deep and drown, but don't give up too soon to experience the power of the authors and their visions.

As one of the undisputed masterpieces of 20th-century literature, Dubliners deserves to be available to students and all listeners in its entirety.?Peter Josyph, New YorkCopyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. The packaging, which features a handsome old photograph of Dublin's O'Connell Street, is small and too fragile for regular library usage. "The Dead" and "Grace" are among Joyce's best stories (also included here is "The Sisters"), and the narration by actor Gerald McSorley is gently poetic and has a fine Irish ring. Although each of the stories in Dubliners can stand on its own, together they constitute an organic whole, and Penguin has broken them up

“The Dead,” a “story of public life,” as Joyce categorized it, was written more than a year after Joyce had finished the other stories in the collection, and was meant to redress what he felt was their “unnecessary harshness.” Set on the feast of the epiphany, it is a haunting tale of connection and of alienation, reflecting, in the words of Stanislaus Joyce (James’s brother and confidant), “the nostalgic love of a rejected exile.” The present volume highlights “The Dead” for readers who wish to focus on that great work in a concise volumeand for university courses in which it is not possible to cover all of Dubliners. But it also gives a strong sense of how that story is part of a larger whole. But as many have pointed out, “The Dead” may equally well be read as a novellaarguably, one of the finest novellas ever written. That James Joyce’s “The Dead” forms an extraordinary conclusion to his collection Dubliners, there can be no doubt. Stories from each of the other sections of Dubliners have been included, and a wide range of background materials is included as well, providing a vivid sense of the literary and historical cont