15 The Dead

Drama On One RTÉ Radio 1

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James Joyce - Dubliners   15 Dubliners - The Dead The fifteenth story in James Joyce’s Dubliners. Gabriel Conroy attends a party, and later, as he speaks with his wife, has an epiphany about the nature of life and death. At 15–16,000 words this story has also been classified as a novella. ————————- James Joyce’s Dubliners is a vivid and unflinching portrait of “dear dirty Dublin” at the turn of the twentieth century. These fifteen stories, including such unforgettable ones as “Araby,” “Grace,” and “The Dead,” delve into the heart of the city of Joyce’s birth, capturing the cadences of Dubliners’ speech and portraying with an almost brute realism their The Windbear outer and inner lives. Dubliners is Joyce at his most accessible and most profound . . . Drama On One  RTÉ Radio 1

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