The Dead

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"The Dead" is the final short story in the 1914 collection Dubliners by James Joyce. The story deals with themes of love and loss as well as raising questions about the nature of the Irish identity. ---------- Also contained in: - Best Short Stories of the Modern Age - Dubliners - Dubliners / Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Essential James Joyce - Fiction 100 - Fictions - Norton Anthology of Short Fiction - Norton Anthology of Short Fiction: Shorter Seventh Edition - Portable James Joyce - Short Fiction: Classic and Contemporary: Second Edition - Story and its Writer: Third Edition - Story and Its Writer: Compact Fourth Edition - Treasury of Great Short Stories

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How long does it take to read The Dead?

About ≈ 1 h 19 m — 71 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.Typical novel≈ 5 h 56 mThe Dead~1 h 19 m

How many pages is The Dead?

71 pages in its most-read edition.Typical novel320The Dead71

What genre is The Dead?

It sits on the Christian Fiction, Fiction shelves.

Has The Dead been made into a movie or TV show?

Yes — screen adaptations include The Dead (1987).

Is The Dead in the public domain?

No — it is still under copyright.

Who wrote The Dead?

James Joyce.

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