The dead
/ James Joyce
- Brooklyn, NY : Melville House Pub. , 2007, c1914
- 64 p. ; 18 cm.
Often cited as the best work of short fiction ever written, Joyce's story details a New Year's Eve gathering in Dublin that is so evocative and beautiful that it prompts the protagonist's wife to make a shocking revelation to her husband — closing the story with an emotionally powerful epiphany that is considered one of the best in modern literature.