He asked himself what is a woman standing on the stairs in the shadow, listening to distant music, a symbol of.
Often 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.
The Art of The Novella Series
Too 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.
- ISBN10 097496090X
- ISBN13 9780974960906
- Publish Date 1 September 2004 (first published December 1982)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 12 August 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Melville House Publishing
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 80
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780974960906