James Joyce is a biography of the Irish modernist James Joyce written by Richard Ellmann, which informs an understanding of this author's complex works.

Anthony Burgess was so impressed with the biographer's work that he claimed it to be "the greatest literary biography of the century.

"[1][2] Edna O'Brien, the Irish novelist, remarked that "H. G. Wells said that Finnegans Wake was an immense riddle, and people find it too difficult to read.

"[3] Ellmann quotes extensively from Finnegans Wake as epigraphs in his biography of Joyce.

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