The Dead (short story) The Dead (short story) "The Dead" is the final story in the 1914 collection "Dubliners" by James Joyce. The other stories in the collection are shorter, whereas at 15,952 words, "The Dead" is long enough to be described as a novella. The story deals with themes of love and loss as well as raising questions about the nature of the Irish identity. Gabriel Conroy, Gretta Conroy, Kate and Julia Morkan, and Bartell d'Arcy are all alluded to in James Joyce's later work, "Ulysses", though no character from "The Dead" makes a direct appearance in the novel. The story centres on
The Best American Short Stories 2019: In 2000, John Updike selected twenty-two unabridged stories from the first eighty-four annual volumes of "The Best American Short Stories", and the result is "The Best American Short Stories of the Century". The expanded CD audio edition includes a new story from "The Best American Short Stories 1999" to round out the century. In 2015, Lorrie Moore served as the guest editor for a centennial anthology from the series, "100 Years of The Best American Short Stories". Official Sources (plain text and HTML) Other The Best American Short Stories The Best American Short Stories yearly anthology is a part