Author: Ellmann, Richard.
Title: Four Dubliners: Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, Samuel Becket.
Description: London Hamish Hamilton, 1988. Reprint ed. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), light foxing top edge, minor edgewear. 106 pp. This book shows the writers in crucial phases: Wilde at Oxford, Yeats in the 'second puberty' of his Steinach operation, Joyce enamoured of two women in Switzerland, Becket coming to terms with his Irish predecessors. These four men had in common the fact that they were all born in Dublin, and responded to their upbringing in Dublin as they reconstituted English literature. ISBN: 0241121094

Keywords: literature criticism, literature, novels, history, biography, celtic, ireland 0241121094


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