![]() ![]() Also find the text of James’ great story in our collection, 800 Free eBooks for iPad, Kindle & Other Devices. The reading will be added to our collection of Free Audio Books. The NPR series Selected Shorts heeded that call and presents the entire story performed live by Cynthia Nixon, of Sex and the City fame, who reads the first half, and by Irish author Colum McCann, who reads part of the second. James’s story is filled with such humor, attention to character and musicality of language that it seems to cry out to be read aloud. As he navigates one minor faux pas after the next – making a poorly received joke here, clumsily parrying a barbed joke there – he comes to realize over the course of the party that his beautiful, distant wife has a past he never knew. ![]() Set during a New Year’s feast in 1904, the story focuses on Gabriel Conroy, a plump, bespectacled young man who is painfully aware of his own social ineptitude. “ The Dead” is the last – and most memorable – short story in James Joyce’s first book, Dubliners. ![]()
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