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
Pastoralia (short story collection) Kurt Vonnegut. In 2007, "Entertainment Weekly" ranked the book #63 on its list of the top 100 works of literature since 1983. The following year, Todd VanDerWerff of "The A.V. Club" ranked it one of the ten best short story collections of the 2000s. Pastoralia (short story collection) Pastoralia is short story writer George Saunders’s second full length short story collection, published in 2000. The collection received highly positive reviews from book critics and was ranked the fifth-greatest book of the 2000s by literary magazine "The Millions". The book consists of stories that appeared (sometimes in different forms) in "The