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
Shakespeare's Memory (short story collection) Shakespeare's Memory (short story collection) Shakespeare's Memory (original Spanish title: ) is a short story collection published in 1983 that collects the last stories by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, which had been published in diverse mediums, such as the national newspapers "La Nación" and "Clarín". It was published three years before the author's death. An English translation of the stories by Andrew Hurley was published in "Collected Fictions". The collection contains only four short stories, making it Borges' shortest anthology. These are (original titles in italics): "August 25, 1983", the first story of the collection, is about Borges encountering