DUFF, CHARLES — England and the English
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1955. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0582527341. B&W Illustrations & Photographs; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has some light sunning / fading to the spine and a couple of smallish edge tears. "Duff's book James Joyce and the Plain Reader (1932) is an introduction James Joyce's major works that seeks to guide "the plain reader" through the author's oeuvre. [5] Duff both situates Joyce within a long literary tradition and emphasises his originality. [6] In describing Joyce, Duff draws on ethnic stereotypes, describing Irish people as motivated by "a restless and often fantastic imagination". [7] Joyce himself owned a copy of Duff's book, [7] and the literary scholar Jean-Michel Rabaté argues that, when Joyce came to complete Finnegans Wake (1939) , he was pleased with Duff's book and incorporated elements of Duff's thought into his work, including the vindication of the rights of the "plain reader." (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .
