Bowker Gordon - James Joyce: a new biography

Past imperfect, 1800-1882 -- The dawn of consciousness, 1882-1888 -- Willingly to school, 1888-1893 -- Belvedere: in the arms of the Jesuits, 1893-1898 -- Cultivating the enigma of a manner, 1898-1899 -- Making a reputation, 1900-1902 -- An uncertain future, 1902 -- Sinister genius, 1902-1903 -- A death in the family, 1903-1904 -- Nora, 1904 -- Birds of passage, 1904-1905 -- At a crossroads, 1905-1906 -- The conception of Ulysses, 1906-1907 -- Going freelance in Trieste, 1907-1909 -- The exiles return, 1909-1910 -- Portrait of the artist in retrospect, 1910-1912 -- A portrait completed; a masterpiece begun, 1912-15 -- The exile in exile, 1915-1917 -- The coming forth by day of Leopold Bloom, 1917-1918 -- Earthly trials, 1918 -- Settling scores and moving on, 1918-1920 -- Ulysses: inside the dismal labyrinth, 1920-1921 -- An eventful labour, 1921-1922 -- Ulysses: birth and afterbirth, 1922-1924 -- A conspiracy of concealment, 1924-1926 -- Fending off the pirates and envisioning the invisible, 1927-1928 -- A French connection, 1929 -- Always something new on the Robiac front, 1930 -- A very English wedding, 1931 -- Death, birth and madness, 1932-1933 -- Ulysses unbound, 1934-1936 -- The ABC of blind love and ruination, 1936-1938 -- A puzzle for a puzzled world, 1939 -- Going downhill fast, 1940 -- Death in exile, 1940-;A revealing new biography, the first in more than fifty years, of one of the twentieth-centurys towering literary figures: James Joyce, author of Ulysses. The author draws on material recently come to light and reconsiders the two signal works produced about Joyces life, Herbert Gormans authorized biography of 1939 and Richard Ellmans tome of 1959. By binding together more intimately the life and work of this singular artist, the author here gives us a masterful, fresh, eminently readable contribution to our understanding, both of Joyces personality and of the monumental opus he created.