Books with title The Dead Game

He didn’t know he was playing.Zack was just living his life.It was really a game.When he started to ask questions, everything changed. Zack wasn’t supposed to figure it out. He could ruin everything.Zack was disoriented when he woke up. They had welcomed him back. He didn’t know where he’d been. He just remembered being 74 and near death.They said he was seventeen.What was this “best score” they kept going on about?Where was this place?Who were these people?And why did they keep talking about the next game?You’ll love the first book in the series and get lost in the elaborate world created by Terry Schott. It will keep you turning pages until the end.Get book 1 now.

The Dead is the final short story in the collection Dubliners by James Joyce. It is the longest story in the collection and widely considered to be one of the greatest short stories in the English language. At between 15-16,000 words it has also been considered a novella. It was adapted as a one act play of the same name by Hugh Leonard in 1967. "The Dead" was made into a film also entitled The Dead in 1987, directed by John Huston. In 1999 it was adapted into a musical by Richard Nelson and Shaun Davey. Christopher Walken starred in the original production. The story centres on Gabriel Conroy on the night of the Morkan sisters' annual dance and dinner in the first week of January 1904, perhaps the Feast of the Epiphany (January 6). Typical of the stories in Dubliners, "The Dead" develops toward a moment of painful self-awareness; Joyce described this as an epiphany. The narrative generally concentrates on Gabriel's insecurities, his social awkwardness, and the defensive way he copes with his discomfort. The story culminates at the point when Gabriel discovers that, through years of marriage, there was much he never knew of his wife's past. JOYCE HOUSE, the fictional Morkan sisters' home. 15 Usher's Island, Dublin. Upon arriving at the party with his wife, Gabriel makes a joke that is not funny about the maid's marriage prospects; and he fidgets, adjusts his clothing, and offers her money as a holiday present. Not long after that, he gets flustered again when his wife pokes fun at him over a conversation they had earlier, in which he had forced her to wear galoshes for the bad weather. With such episodes, Gabriel is depicted as particularly pathetic. Similarly, Gabriel is unsure about quoting a poem from the poet Robert Browning when he is giving his dinner address, as he is afraid to be seen as pretentious. But, at the same time, Gabriel considers himself above the others when he speculates that his audience would not understand the words he uses.

THE DEAD begins one year before the action in THE ENEMY, just after the Disaster. A terrible disease has struck everyone sixteen and over, leaving them either dead or a decomposing, flesh-eating creature. The action starts in a boarding school just outside London, where all the teachers have turned into sickos. A few kids survive and travel by bus into the city. The bus driver, an adult named Greg, seems to be unaffected by the disease. Then he begins to show the dreaded signs: outer blisters and inner madness. The kids escape Greg and end up at the Imperial War Museum. A huge fire in South London drives them all to the Thames, and eventually over the river to the Tower of London. It is there they will meet up with the kids in THE ENEMY in Book 3, THE FEAR.

Book 1 in Series A party was called for tonight at End House, but no host or guests greeted you at the front door, only candles lighting a path through the hallway of the deserted mansion.You're standing in a pool of water in the basement, wearing your party clothes. Is your heart beating too fast? The door locks behind you. You and friends charge through the dark water, past the falling cages with sharp edges, ready to snare their next victim. Circular saws descend, looking for heads to slice. Steps appear on the far wall, leading to a closed door. The door opens, two of your friends run through the doorway right before it disappears into the wall. Meanwhile, Linda is upstairs with the others, trying to escape a maze of rooms, where bloody body parts fall into a blazing fire in the living room, and a skeleton sleeps on a bed. Are these illusions or traps in a deadly game? What should you do? Run. The owner of End House takes no prisoners. The Dead Game has begun.

The main character in this short story is Gabriel Conroy and the entire short story takes place during his attendance at a holiday party, annually thrown by his aunts. Near the end of the party Gabriel sees his wife, Gretta, in a new and expanded way at the same moment when she is reminiscing on a song being sung at the party. Listen as James Joyce weaves harsh realities back into this story, as is characteristic with other stories in this series, "Dubliners".

Ten-year-old Tracy is smart and full of energy, but more than anything, she wants love. Tracy doesn't know where her mum lives, but that doesn't stop her from having long, imaginary conversations with her. She's had two foster families before, which haven't worked out, but she hopes a woman named Cam will be her next foster mum. In The Dare Game Tracy is now living with Cam and starting a new school. Things seem to be looking up for Tracy - but then trouble begins. She has a horrible teacher, the other kids laugh at her, and things between her and Cam aren't going as well as expected. Tracy's friends, Alexander and Football, are having their own problems, too. Then one day, out of the blue, who should appear but Tracy's long-lost mum.