John Stanislaus Joyce: The Voluminous Life and Genius of James Joyce's Father

Recounts the life of a quintessential Dubliner in a changing city, and shows how he and his experiences found their way into his son's works

Biographies & Memoirs

COSTELLO, PETER

Jackson, John Wyse

Arts & Literature

St Martins Pr

This biography of James Joyce concentrates on Joyce's early life in Dublin, since it was this period of obscurity that provided him with the material for "Dubliners", "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", "Ulysses" and even "Finnegans Wake". It draws on recently discovered or previously overlooked sources to show how Joyce's early life - his education, his relationship with his siblings, his youthful loss of faith and his first sexual experiences - shaped so much he was to write in later years.

James Joyce: the Years of Growth 1882-1915

Pan/Macmillan

Jules Verne: Inventor of science fiction

Hodder and Stoughton

This record of the early life of James Joyce is based on years of research into his education, religious and sexual experiences, family life and his roamings around Dublin - all of which are significant features of his highly autobiographical novels. Published to coincide with the International Joyce Symposium in Dublin, the book is designed to appeal both to the general reader and to the academic who is eager for fresh knowledge of one of Ireland's greatest heroes.

James Joyce: Years Growth

Random House Value Publishing

The fiscally conservative and socially progressive Peter Costello is Australia's longest-serving treasurer—from 1994 to 2007—and in his political memoirs he reflects on the role of his political party, his more than 30 years of service to the Liberal cause, and his possible future role in politics. Costello was the architect of the goods-and-service tax that helped eliminate public-sector debt and a supporter the referendum suggesting that Australia become a republic. As deputy leader of the Liberal Party for more than a decade, he worked with significant Liberal leaders including John Howard, Alexander Downer, John Hewson, and Andrew Peacock. This invaluable narrative that combines a first-person memoir with a third-person perspective offers insight into a successful partnership with John Howard, which led to four election victories and the longest period of economic prosperity in Australian history.

The Costello Memoirs

Coleman, Peter

Leaders & Notable People

Melbourne University Press

The fiscally conservative and socially progressive Peter Costello is Australia's longest-serving treasurer—from 1994 to 2007—and in his political memoirs he reflects on the role of his political party, his more than 30 years of service to the Liberal cause, and his possible future role in politics. Costello was the architect of the goods-and-service tax that helped eliminate public-sector debt and a supporter of the referendum suggesting that Australia become a republic. As deputy leader of the Liberal Party for more than a decade, he worked with significant Liberal leaders including John Howard, Alexander Downer, John Hewson, and Andrew Peacock. In this updated edition, a new chapter on the global financial crisis is included. This invaluable narrative that combines a first-person memoir with a third-person perspective offers insight into a successful partnership with John Howard, which led to four election victories and the longest period of economic prosperity in Australian history.

Historical

In Search of Lake Monsters

Politics & Social Sciences

Archaeology

Berkley Books

This first biography of James Joyce in more than a generation will serve as an important supplement to Richard Ellmann's famous study, focusing as it does on Joyce's Irish background and that of his family. Using recently discovered or previously overlooked sources, Peter Costello sheds new light on his subject while bringing Joyce - with both his flaws and his genius - to life in a vivid and memorable manner. The theme of Costello's biography is the theme of all Joyce's work - the transformation of raw life into art. There are few writers whose early memories proved to be so rich a mine for the creative imagination that infused their work. In his fiction, Joyce's genius used the lives of the people close to him in Dublin at the turn of the century - their loves, their feuds, and their struggles to overcome hardship - to create the stories of his work. Costello has unearthed many real-life models for so much of what Joyce was to write in later years - John Casey, Emma Cleary, the Misses Morkan, and many others. Among Costello's most fascinating revelations is the discovery that one of the most famous characters in twentieth-century fiction, Leopold Bloom, derives not from a Jew but from a Belfast Presbyterian. Costello's intimate knowledge of the city of Dublin - its culture, history, and politics - allows him to place Joyce's actions, writings, and convictions in their natural setting and to show Joyce, surprisingly, as an Irish cultural nationalist with very firm views about his country's struggle for independence. With its startling revelations, James Joyce: The Years of Growth 1882-1915 interweaves the many strands of person, place, and time to create a brilliant new portrait of Joyce, the artist and the man. It is a major achievement, essential to our understanding of this towering figure of twentieth-century literature.

JAMES JOYCE: The Years of Growth, 1882-1915

Pantheon

Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 - 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages Extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Around the World in Eighty Days. Verne is generally considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His reputation is markedly different in Anglophone regions, where he has often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or children's books, not least because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his novels are often reprinted.

Jules Verne, inventor of science fiction

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John Stanislaus Joyce: The Voluminous Life and Genius of James Joyce's Father

James Joyce: the Years of Growth 1882-1915

Jules Verne: Inventor of science fiction

James Joyce: Years Growth

The Costello Memoirs

The Costello Memoirs

In Search of Lake Monsters

JAMES JOYCE: The Years of Growth, 1882-1915

Jules Verne, inventor of science fiction

The Irish 100 - A Ranking of the Most Influential Irish Men and Women of All Time