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The Dead

AuthorJames Joyce

NarratorT P Mckenna

Duration1h 31m

CategoriesAdult Fiction, Short Stories

Key StageA Level

PublisherCSA Word

VersionUnabridged

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From Dubliners: The Dead - At a party, Gabriel Conroy offends three women and realizes in an epiphany that passionless people like himself are already dead. At 15-16,000 words this story has also been classified as a novella. The Dead was adapted to film by John Huston, written for the screen by his son Tony and starring his daughter Anjelica as Mrs. Conroy.

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