James Joyce and His World

By Chester G. Anderson

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684175517
• ISBN13: 9780684175515
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Thames and Hudson.
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Concise and Solid.

I was looking for a biography on Joyce and was pleasantly surprised by this one. I picked it up for a very cheap price. Despite the fact that it is brief, it offers the basic outlines of the great man's life and is an excellent introductory work. There seems to be pictures on every page which was a wonderful side benefit as the visual images tell a story of their own. Before reading this, I really had no idea as to how autobiographical Joyce's fiction was. That so many of characters parallel people he knew was unexpected given the unbridled level of creativity he possessed. Upon finishing it, I immediately wanted to read more about his life in Trieste and Paris which I will do in the future.