The Dead (short story) and Shaun Davey, which won a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical. The original production starred Christopher Walken as Gabriel Conroy. Joyce Carol Oates's 1973 story "The Dead" makes many allusions to Joyce's 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,
The Man Upstairs (short story collection) The Man Upstairs (short story collection) The Man Upstairs is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 23 January 1914 by Methuen & Co., London. Most of the stories had previously appeared in magazines, generally "Strand Magazine" in the UK and "Cosmopolitan" or "Collier's Weekly" in the United States. Although the book was not published in the US, many of the stories were eventually made available to US readers in "The Uncollected Wodehouse" (1976) and "The Swoop! and Other Stories" (1979) It is a miscellaneous collection, not featuring any of Wodehouse's