The Speckled Bird
An Autobiographical Novel with Variant Versions
Authors: Yeats, W.
Editors: O'Donnell, W. (Ed.)
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Yeats wrote four distinct versions of his unfinished novel, The Speckled Bird. This unique edition, draws together all four books, and includes transcripts of recently identified manuscript pages of the second version. The texts are supplemented by detailed explanatory, authorial and textual notes by the editor, William H. O'Donnell. An introduction and chronology provide an overview of the publishing history of the work.
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WILLIAM H. O'DONNELL is Professor of English at the University of Memphis. He has edited and annotated Yeats's Autobiographies and two other prose volumes in the Collected Edition of W.B. Yeats, as well as the earlier edition of The Speckled Bird. He is the author of two books on Yeats.
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'...admirably edited and elegantly produced book.' - Times Literary Supplement
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Speckled Bird
- Book Subtitle
- An Autobiographical Novel with Variant Versions
- Authors
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- W. Yeats
- Editors
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- W. O'Donnell
- Copyright
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-333-96614-3
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- 280
- Topics
