- British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), 20th century English fiction, christian fiction, Christmas
"The Dead" is the final short story in the 1914 collection [Dubliners](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL86329W/Dubliners) by James Joyce. The story deals with themes of love and loss as well as raising questions about the nature of the Irish identity.
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- contemplativerelentless
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- gravecomic
- earnestironic
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- Author
- James Joyce
- First published
- 1965
- Pages
- 93
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers, Foillseacìn Inis Gleoire, Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press
- Editions
- 28
- Language
- gle, German, English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781870539241
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James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century. Joyce is best known for *Ulysses* (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles, perhaps most prominent among these the stream of consciousness technique he utilised. Other well-known works are the short-story collection *Dubliners* (1914), and the novels *A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man* (1916) and *Finnegans Wake* (1939). His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, occasional journalism and his publ
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