The Dead is one of James Joyce's rare and genuine masterpieces; an enchanting work of artistry deserving of the label in a thousand different ways.
It can be found on countless lists of the finest works of the 20th century, and is one of his major achievements.
Often cited as the best work of short fiction ever written "The Dead" is the final story in Joyce's 1914 collection entitled Dubliners.
JAMES JOYCE (1882-1941), one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century, transformed the art of fiction. The author of numerous novels and poems, including Ulysses, Finnegan's Wake, and Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, he is considered, along with Virginia Woolf, Marcel Proust, and William Faulkner, to be a central figure in the development of the modern novel.
