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The Dead
The Dead | James Joyce
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"The Dead is one of the twentieth century's most beautiful pieces of short literature. Taking his inspiration from a family gathering held every year on the Feast of the Epiphany, Joyce pens a story about a married couple attending a Christmas-season party at the house of the husband's two elderly aunts. A shocking confession made by the husband's wife toward the end of the story showcases the power of Joyce's greatest innovation: the epiphany, that moment when everything, for character and reader alike, is suddenly clear.
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eliasmariscal
The Dead | James Joyce
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Great.

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Soscha
The Dead | James Joyce
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It‘s spooky season, yay! Halloween reads here I come! Ooh, how about “The Dead”!

Zombies, right? Decomposing bodies rising? Ooo…bring it, ye devils & demons! I am pumped! 🧟‍♀️🧟🧟‍♂️

THIS BOOK IS A LIE.

zero stars, do not recommend. 😉

(Picture is Xylaria polymorpha, the fungi more commonly known as dead man's fingers.)

eri.reads This cracked me up! 🤣🤣 Sorry it was a bust though. 2y
sharread 😳🎃🧙👻🧟‍♀️🧟💀☠ 2y
Lindy Great photo! 2y
tpixie Wow! What fungus!! 2y
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DrexEdit
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For this month's #doublespin I re-read The Dead by James Joyce. I don't think I've read it since college, but was very glad for the re-read. Definitely was able to appreciate this in different ways than when my younger self read it.

@TheAromaofBooks

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Esin
The Dead | James Joyce
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A lot of build up for an unexpected ending (Henry rec)

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bookandcat
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Ticking away books this week! Read the James Joyce novella "The Dead" on #serialreader and found it to be quite lovely. I really want to see the adaptation (with food and partying) in NYC called The Dead 1904 which is produced by writers /spouses Paul Muldoon & Jean Hanff Korelitz (Admission). Tomorrow January 6 is Epiphany when the story takes place, so I finished it just in time! #litsyAtoZ (J for Joyce!)

thebluestocking I‘m totally lovely Serial Reader! I‘m working my way through Moby Dick. 5y
bookandcat @thebluestocking it's a great app! I tried Moby Dick in print, then via Serial Reader, but it wasn't working, finally got through it and enjoyed much of it via the Moby Dick Big Read podcast (every chapter had a different narrator including some celebs like Benedict Cumberbatch). Good luck with the whale! 5y
thebluestocking Wow. That Big Read podcast sounds amazing. I‘ll check it out. Thanks! (edited) 5y
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JeanP
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"He is dead," she said at length. "He died when he was only seventeen. Isn't it a terrible thing to die so young as that?"

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JeanP
Dead | James Joyce
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This was the final story in Joyce's Dubliners short story collection. It seemed to me to probably be the darkest of all the stories. I really enjoyed it. It was very subtle at first, like I didnt know where Joyce was going with it but by the end, I thoroughly understood what Joyce was trying to say through the story. This was a great conclusion and final story with which to end the Dubliners collection.

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smccallum
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Really happy to have read this, beautiful and haunting and occasionally very funny, I'll definitely be reading more Joyce, that makes 3 books so far in #24in48

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smccallum
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Sudden change of plans but here's my temporary set up and some book picks with plenty to keep me going on audio or kindle if I run out! #24in48

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smccallum
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I'm on the move Littens but the reading continues, this is my first Joyce, I saw a musical adaptation recently and I'm very excited! #24in48

Leniverse That's a good Joyce to start with! Probably the best one for not scaring you off his other work! 7y
smccallum @Leniverse yes that's what I heard, this, then go onto portrait of an artist as a young man was the suggestion I'd heard? 7y
Leniverse I preferred The Dubliners, where The Dead is also the final and longest story. So, either of those. Ulysses takes place shortly after Portrait of the Artist, so it's beneficial to have read that shorter work first. (Or so I believe. I haven't attempted Ulysses yet, but it's the same MC, so...) 7y
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"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." A passage that makes my soul swoon. Happy Bloomsday.

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Subtly symbolic and expertly crafted, there are so many layers to happily digest and analyze. Please, let's talk about those last few paragraphs, which are a testament to genius. I come down on the side of hope and believe that Gabriel has an epiphany that will lead to change, but the brilliance of the ambiguity really is staggering. I can make a logical case for several interpretations, and that is why Joyce is a master. Art from Paravion Press.

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BookishTrish
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Fun fact: I was so bookish that I didn't go to high school English class (a girlfriend and I wrote our own curricula). I read a ton of great stuff. This shelf holds some of my favs.

DreesReads But...but....I can't read most of the titles! Must....know..... 8y
BookishTrish @AudreyMorris there's Emily Bronte, Dickens, Dumas, and bit of Thomas Hardy, Catcher in the Rye and Rebecca West's The Birds Fall Down 8y
DreesReads I admit that Dumas is a huge hole in my reading. Huge. 8y
BookishTrish @AudreyMorris but he's so damned entertaining... And on Serial Reader 8y
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mattgodfrey

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.

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