num_pages: 64
description: Often cited as the best work of short fiction ever written, Joyce's story details a New Year's Eve gathering in Dublin that is so evocative and beautiful that it prompts the protagonist's wife to make a shocking revelation to her husband—closing the story with an emotionally powerful epiphany that is considered one of the best in modern literature.
language: English
title: The Dead
titlecomplete: The Dead
genres: 20th Century, Short Stories, Ireland, Novella, Literary Fiction, School, Literature, Classics, Irish Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 20310
places: Dublin, Ireland
publisher: Melville House Publishing