a long the riverrun: Selected Essays

by Richard Ellmann

. with dustjacket, 1988 bright clean copy, Professional bookseller since 1981

Genres: Literary Criticism, Literature

288 pages, Hardcover

First published March 25, 1989

About the author

Richard David Ellmann was an American literary critic and biographer of the Irish writers James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats. He won the U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction for James Joyce (1959), one of the most acclaimed literary biographies of the 20th century. Its 1982 revised edition won James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Ellmann was a liberal humanist, and his academic work focuses on the major modernist writers of the 20th century.

Reviews

[Jen H · Rating 4 out of 5]

I got this book from a clearance table at a bookstore many a year ago, when I was in the heyday of my James Joyce mania. Ellmann is a foremost Joyce scholar and I soaked up these essays like a sponge, helping me to understand Joyce (and Yeats and some other favorites he writes about).