Four Dubliners: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett

by Richard Ellmann and Richard Ellman

Book Overview

Examines the lives and careers of four distinguished Irish authors and analyzes the connections among them. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807612081
• ISBN13: 9780807612088
• Release Date: September 1988
• Publisher: George Braziller
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

The best bet

There are many things we must thank Richard Ellmann for. First of all, his poetry anthologies. Second, his biographies on Wilde, Yeats and Joyce. And finally, this short, delightful, easy-reading book. Four conferences about the best Irish writers ever: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce and Beckett. And the four are masterpieces. They do not talk about the "common places" you are suppossed to here while being in a conference, they try to express a fact, a situation, a place that defines the person they are talking about: Wilde in Oxford, Yeats in his "old age", Joyce and his anxiety looking for facts to write about, Beckett and Naught. I think that everyone interested on these authors should read the book.