James Joyce (Oxford Lives) - Softcover

Ellmann, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195033817 ISBN 13: 9780195033816

Publisher: OUP USA, 1984

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Review:

`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 It assembles, with a mastery Joyce himself would have admired, a great mass of published and unpublished testimony...It is informed by critical comment of high quality.'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

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0195033817
• ISBN 13: 9780195033816
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 960