James Joyce: a new biography

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A revealing new biography, the first in more than fifty years, of one of the twentieth-century's towering literary figures: James Joyce, author of "Ulysses." The author draws on material recently come to light and reconsiders the two signal works produced about Joyce's life, Herbert Gorman's authorized biography of 1939 and Richard Ellman's tome of 1959. By binding together more intimately the life and work of this singular artist, the author here gives us a masterful, fresh, eminently readable…

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Full title :James Joyce : a new biography / Gordon Bowker.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2012.
Edition:1st American ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012.

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 608 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780374178727, 0374178720, 0374533822, 9780374533823
oclc:ocn759174980
LC Classification:PR6019.O9
Dewey Decimal:823/.912

Past imperfect, 1800-1882 -- The dawn of consciousness, 1882-1888 -- Willingly to school, 1888-1893 -- Belvedere: in the arms of the Jesuits, 1893-1898 -- Cultivating 'the enigma of a manner', 1898-1899 -- Making a reputation, 1900-1902 -- An uncertain future, 1902 -- 'Sinister genius', 1902-1903 -- A death in the family, 1903-1904 -- Nora, 1904 -- Birds of passage, 1904-1905 -- At a crossroads, 1905-1906 -- The conception of Ulysses, 1906-1907 -- Going freelance in Trieste, 1907-1909 -- The exile's return, 1909-1910 -- Portrait of the artist in retrospect, 1910-1912 -- A portrait completed; a masterpiece begun, 1912-15 -- The exile in exile, 1915-1917 -- The coming forth by day of Leopold Bloom, 1917-1918 -- Earthly trials, 1918 -- Settling scores and moving on, 1918-1920 -- Ulysses: inside the dismal labyrinth, 1920-1921 -- An eventful labour, 1921-1922 -- Ulysses: birth and afterbirth, 1922-1924 -- A conspiracy of concealment, 1924-1926 -- Fending off the pirates and envisioning the invisible, 1927-1928 -- A French connection, 1929 -- 'Always something new on the Robiac front', 1930 -- A very English wedding, 1931 -- Death, birth and madness, 1932-1933 -- Ulysses unbound, 1934-…

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Authors, Irish Authors, Irish -- Biography -- 20th cen… Biographies Biography collective biographies Écrivains irlandais -- Biographies -- 2… Joyce, James Literary Nonfiction