FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
JAMES JOYCE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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“The Dead”
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“Eveline”
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“A Painful Case”
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All of the Above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Dubliners is a collection of short stories published in 1914. The concluding story is “The Dead, ” which has been cited as “the best short story ever written.” You can see that on GR’s entry for the story.
Detailed explanation-2: -Dubliners consists of fifteen short stories. These stories have common themes such as death, routine lifecycle, moral and material paralysis of some characters. Although the stories are about different events and characters, the commonality of aforementioned themes causes coherence in Dubliners in the sense of style.
Detailed explanation-3: -What was James Joyce’s best short story? ‘The Dead’. It is the last short story in Joyce’s ‘Dubliners’ and probably its most thematically relevant.
Detailed explanation-4: -In October 1998, BBC Radio 4 broadcast dramatisations by various writers of “A Painful Case", “After the Race", “Two Gallants", “The Boarding House", “A Little Cloud", and “Counterparts". The series ended with a dramatization of “The Dead", which was first broadcast in 1994 under the title “Distant Music".