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The biographers that dominated the generation before Mr. Holroyd's, Leon Edel and Richard Ellmann, built empires on the backs of their literary betters, Henry James and James Joyce.
The Biographers' Biographer Carl Rollyson 2011
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* Description by Richard Ellmann in the preface to the revised 1982 edition of his biography of Joyce.
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* Description by Richard Ellmann in the preface to the revised 1982 edition of his biography of Joyce.
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Fanto (also responsible for the artwork in the Ulysses a Vau-de-Ville), copyrighted in 1986, with the close collaboration of Richard Ellmann, a biographer of both Wilde and Joyce.
Archive 2008-09-01 The Nag 2008
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Richard Ellmann, Wilde's biographer, has devised the intricate scheme, and R.
Archive 2008-09-01 The Nag 2008
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The experience of reading Holmes on Coleridge, Marchand on Byron, Ellmann on Joyce, and Steegmuller on Flaubert, for example, puts me firmly contra Proust.
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Ellmann wound up winning one for “Oscar Wilde,” though posthumously.
‘One of the Greatest Failures in Literature’ - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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The key passage in the corrected edition of Ulysses, referred to by Professor Ellmann in his review [NYR, October 25, 1984], comes from Thomas Aquinas, Summa contra gentiles, Book 1, Chapter 91.
Quitting Smoking 2009
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Ellmann wound up winning one for “Oscar Wilde,” though posthumously.
‘One of the Greatest Failures in Literature’ - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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Lucy Ellmann: "I should declare immediately that I resent and fear Christianity, not only for its sexism and incitement of violence but for its deadening effect on the imagintion."
Strictly personal ... Frank Wilson 2006
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