{"product_id":"9781612190860","title":"The Dead","description":"\u003cb\u003eHe asked himself what is a woman standing on the stairs in the shadow, listening to distant music, a symbol of.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOften cited as the best work of short  fiction ever written, Joyce's elegant story details a New Year's Eve gathering in  Dublin that is so evocative and beautiful that it prompts the protagonist's wife  to make a shocking revelation to her husband—closing the story with an emotionally  powerful epiphany that is unsurpassed in modern literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe Art of The Novella Series\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eToo short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Trade Paperback edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Melville House Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47170931753200,"sku":"9781612190860","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781612190860_p0.jpg?v=1763845141","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781612190860","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}