Bibliograph

Mad, bad, dangerous to know, the fathers of Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce, Colm Tóibín

Type

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Mad, bad, dangerous to know, the fathers of Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce, Colm Tóibín

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-241) and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Mad, bad, dangerous to know

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1057410677

Responsibility statement

Colm Tóibín

Sub title

the fathers of Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce

Summary

"Colm Tóibín begins his incisive, revelatory Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know with a walk through the Dublin streets where he went to university--a wide-eyed boy from the country--and where three Irish literary giants also came of age: Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce. Elegant, profound, and riveting, Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know illuminates not only the complex relationships between three of the greatest writers in the English language and their fathers, but also illustrates the surprising ways these men surface in their work. Through these stories of fathers and sons, Tóibín recounts the resistance to English cultural domination, the birth of modern Irish cultural identity, and the extraordinary contributions of these complex and masterful authors"--, Provided by publisher

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