<p><b>At a Christmas party, a revelation shatters a man's complacency forever</b><br /><br />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. <i>The Dead</i> 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.<br /><br /><b>BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days</b></p>