Often cited as one of the best works of short fiction ever written, “The Dead” is the final story in Joyce’s 1914 collection, Dubliners.

It can be found on countless lists of the finest works of the 20th century, and is one of his major achievements.

JAMES JOYCE (1882-1941), one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century, transformed the art of fiction.  
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 and William Faulkner, a central figure in the development of the modern novel.