James Joyce (New and Revised Edition) PDF
Preview James Joyce (New and Revised Edition)
"The pleasure afforded by James Joyce's works shows no sign of diminution," writes Richard Ellmann. "He exhibits the staying power associated with the greatest of writers. In working over these pages, I have felt all my affection for him renewed."
Upon its publication in 1959, Ellmann's Joyce was recognized as the principal study of Joyce's life and a masterpiece of literary biography. The revised edition contains 100 new pages of text and notes and 87 new illustra¬tions. There are details of a failed love affair, a dream notebook, previously unknown letters, and much more, bringing this masterwork up to date for a new generation to enjoy.
"The genius of 'Ellmann's Joyce' is its abundance of detail—its wealth of anecdotes and letters, recovered conversations and poems. It's a pleasure to salute this masterly book as it marches past again." Newsweek
"A superlatively good biography of Joyce...Mr. Ellmann...fixes Joyce's im- age for a generation." Frank Kermode, The Spectator
"A work of exacting scholarship which is also a humane and liberating docu- ment. Joyce found the proper biographer, and there can be no higher praise." The Washington Post
"Engages every aspect of Joyce's life and interests (literary, amatory, political, domestic) . . . a great feat of twentieth-century literary scholarship." Christopher Ricks, Grand Street
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