The Dead (A Novella) (Annotated)

James Joyce's The Dead, the culminating tale of Dubliners, is a finely wrought novella of social ritual, inward revelation, and spiritual paralysis. Set during the annual Morkan sisters' Epiphany gathering, it moves with exquisite realism through music, conversation, and etiquette before narrowing into Gabriel Conroy's devastating self-recognition. Joyce's supple prose blends naturalistic detail w...