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James Joyce and Italo Svevo : the story of a friendship / Stanley Price.

By: Publication details: Bantry, Co. Cork, Ireland : Somerville Press, 2016.Description: 276 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780992736484
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 920 23
LOC classification:
  • PR6019.O9 Z78324 2016
Summary: James Joyce left Dublin in 190, bound for Trieste and a job teaching English at the Berlitz School. He was to live there for the next eleven years. Italo Svevo, born and bred in Trieste, worked there for his family's marine paint company. He had also written two novels, published privately and unsuccessfully. In 1907, wanting to improve his English to do business with the British Admiralty, Svevo went to Berlitz, where Joyce became his teacher.
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Loanable Book Library Irish Collection 920 JOY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 000413686

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-270) and index.

James Joyce left Dublin in 190, bound for Trieste and a job teaching English at the Berlitz School. He was to live there for the next eleven years. Italo Svevo, born and bred in Trieste, worked there for his family's marine paint company. He had also written two novels, published privately and unsuccessfully. In 1907, wanting to improve his English to do business with the British Admiralty, Svevo went to Berlitz, where Joyce became his teacher.

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