bookmate game
James Joyce

The Dead

“The Dead” is the final short story in the 1914 collection Dubliners by James Joyce. It is the longest story in the collection. The action takes place in Dublin in 1904 at an Epiphany party held by two elderly sisters. The story focuses attention on the academic Gabriel Conroy and his discovery of his wife Gretta's memory of a deceased lover.
54 printed pages
Have you already read it? How did you like it?
👍👎

Impressions

  • Юлияshared an impression8 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    💞Loved Up
    💧Soppy

    Удивительное достижение - так много вложить в такое короткое произведение. Заставляет задуматься про отношения, жизнь в целом и то, что на самом деле происходит в умах и сердцах наших самых близких людей, и о чём мы зачастую даже не догадываемся.

  • b8jobshared an impression9 years ago
    👍Worth reading

    very much appreciated access to the text

  • Ibtisam Bhattishared an impression5 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    🎯Worthwhile

    So if I read the novel, I will write again and have a nice day for you guys today, I know not what is written in the novel.

Quotes

  • Seline Bacchushas quoted2 years ago
    Gabriel felt humiliated by the failure of his irony and by the evocation of this figure from the dead, a boy in the gasworks. While he had been full of memories of their secret life together, full of tenderness and joy and desire, she had been comparing him in her mind with another. A shameful consciousness of his own person assailed him. He saw himself as a ludicrous figure, acting as a penny-boy for his aunts, a nervous, well-meaning sentimentalist, orating to vulgarians and idealizing his own clownish lusts, the pitiable fatuous fellow he had caught a glimpse of in the mirror. Instinctively he turned his back more to the light lest she might see the shame that burned upon his forehead.
  • Seline Bacchushas quoted2 years ago
    `And what did he die of so young, Gretta? Consumption, was it?'

    `I think he died for me,' she answered.
  • Raoulhas quoted4 years ago
    His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

On the bookshelves

fb2epub
Drag & drop your files (not more than 5 at once)