Books with title The Dead End

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish expatriate writer, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses (1922) and its highly controversial successor Finnegans Wake (1939), as well as the short story collection Dubliners (1914) and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). Although he spent most of his adult life outside Ireland, Joyce's fictional universe is firmly rooted in Dublin, providing the settings and much of the subject matter for all his fiction. In particular, his tempestuous early relationship with the Irish Roman Catholic Church is reflected through a similar inner conflict in his recurrent alter ego Stephen Dedalus. As the result of his minute attentiveness to a personal locale and his self-imposed exile and influence throughout Europe, Joyce became simultaneously one of the most cosmopolitan and one of the most local of all the great English language writers.

The Dead is the last story in James Joyce's collection of stories entitled Dubliners and also the longest piece in the book. Appreciated by critics and often called one of the finest short stories in English literature, The Dead surprises both with its plot and its wonderful, poetic language, so characteristic to Joyce.The main character of the story is Gabriel Conroy, a professor. At the beginning, he arrives late at the party held by the Morkan sisters to celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany. Then, the story continues with the events at the party as they are experienced by Conroy - the conversations he has before dinner, including a confrontation with an Irish nationalist that will define Conroy's mood for most of the evening, the music he listens to, the dinner, the snow that has just started to fall and will soon be covering all Ireland, then the end of the party and the night spent with his wife in a hotel. Though Conroy hopes to spend a passionate night with his wife, Gretta, the woman is way too preoccupied with her thoughts. Conroy insists to find out what is bothering Gretta, who tells him about a man she was very much in love with when she was young, but who died before they could get married. Gretta soon falls asleep and Gabriel contemplates the important role that the memory of dead people plays in our life and how every one of us will eventually become a memory. This beautiful short story influenced many authors, including Joyce Carol Oates, and it was adapted for the stage and for the big screen, too. It was first staged in 1967 as a one-act play, then it was made into a movie first in 1987, with Anjelica Huston in the role of Gretta, an it was also adapted as a musical that won a Tony Award.

In the final installment of the Greeks vs. Romans series, the battle is approaching. The group of friends will have to put aside their differences and learn to trust each other once again. But will they have the strength to? With the arrival of new allies, it will be time for Jezz to lead the small group into the last battle against the Roman army. Only two questions remain: Will the Greeks finally be saved? And who will survive the slaughter?

As she sets out on an overnight group hike in the Adirondacks, Bridget's mind is muddled with middle school worries. But soon she and her friends get caught up in the plan to stage a moose sighting to outwit the boys on the trip. Nothing can prepare her or the others, though, for what they are about to see. It's a fright that has them up all night, wondering about dead ends and new beginnings. Enjoy this new, autumn adventure and familiar characters that readers have come to love from Soft Shoulders and Dangerous Falls Ahead.