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 Five Younger Gallants 1879 novel was not authentic as it was noticeably different from the "original draft" he received. In "A Brief History of Chinese Fiction", Lu Xun wrote (as translated by Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang): One of the prefaces, dated "the first month of witner of 1890", suggestively includes the name Boyin (伯寅), Pan Zuyin's courtesy name, but as Pan died on December 11, 1890, it was unlikely his work. In addition, Bai Yunsheng appears in the 1970 Hong Kong film "The Winged Tiger". The Five Younger Gallants The Five Younger Gallants (小五義) is a 1890 Chinese novel and the best