Sunday, December 11, 2016

How much land does a man need?

“On 27 April 1935 Joyce sent Lucia Tolstoy's story, ‘How Much Land Does a Man Need?’ He said of it (Letters, ed. Gilbert, p 364) that in his opinion it was ‘the greatest story that the literature of the world knows’.”

(James Joyce Letters, ed. Ellmann, p 354)

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