THE DEAD (Modern Classics Series) (Annotated)

James Joyce's The Dead, the culminating story of Dubliners, is a masterwork of modernist short fiction, at once social comedy, psychological study, and spiritual elegy. Set during the Misses Morkan's annual Epiphany gathering, it moves with exquisite realism through music, conversation, hospitality, and suppressed tensions before arriving at Gabriel Conroy's devastating inward revelation. Joyce's ...