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The Dead
  • Published: 20 October 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529983753
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $24.00

The Dead

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Experience a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with James Joyce, the giant of modernism, in his haunting masterpiece of love, memory, and mortality

At a Christmas party, a revelation shatters a man's complacency forever

At a winter gathering in Dublin, friends and family come together for an evening of music, conversation and ritual. As the night unfolds, small tensions surface, and a chance revelation alters one man’s understanding of his life and his marriage. The Dead is James Joyce’s masterful story of memory, loss and awakening. Quietly devastating, it captures an essential realisation of life that lingers long after the evening ends.

BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
  • Published: 20 October 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529983753
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $24.00
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About the author

James Joyce

James Joyce, the twentieth century’s most influential novelist, was born in Dublin in 1882. At twenty years old, Joyce renounced his Catholicism and left Dublin to spend most of his life as a writer in exile in Paris, Trieste, Rome, and Zurich. His writings include Chamber Music, Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Exiles, Ulysses, Pomes Penyeach, and Finnegans Wake. Ulysses required seven years to complete and Finnegans Wake took seventeen. Both works revolutionized the form, structure, and content of the novel. Joyce died in Zurich in 1941.
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