James Joyce (Oxford Lives)

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Illustrated
1984
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Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce's life to include newly discovered primary material, including details of a failed love affair, a limerick about Samuel Beckett, a dream notebook, previously unknown letters, and much more.

Synopsis

Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce's life to include newly discovered primary material, including details of a failed love affair, a limerick about Samuel Beckett, a dream notebook, previously unknown letters, and much more.

$38.05

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 960
Edition: 2
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 22 Mar 1984
ISBN 10: 0195033817
ISBN 13: 9780195033816

Media Reviews

`a superlatively good biography of Joyce. It assembles, with a mastery Joyce himself would have admired, a great mass of published and unpublished testimony...It is informed by critical comment of high quality.' Frank Kermode, Observer.
`It is deeply erudite and tremendously comprehensive, but more than that, it is compellingly readable and beautifully written.' Times Literary Supplement.
`One of the great critical biographies of our generation.'Guardian.
''Perhaps the greatest literary biography ever ... Ellmann achieves a prodigious feat of scholarship.' ___The Observer___
`wonderfullyintelligent, elated, always amusing.' Stephen Spender, ___Books___
`Perhaps the greatest literary biography ever written...Ellmann achieves a prodigious feat of scholarship, one even more comprehensive than (and as readable as) his recent life of Wilde.' ___Observer___
'major scholarly work ... a new bench-mark for biography as a major vehicle of literary scholarship' John Batchelor, British Book News, September 1993

Author Bio

The late Richard Ellman was Goldsmiths' Professor of English at Oxford University. He was the author of many books, including a distinguished biography of Oscar Wilde, published posthumously.