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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.
Keywords
- 1900
- chronology
- edition
- history
- history of literature
- knowledge
- manuscript
- novel
- occult
- publishing
- William Butler Yeats
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'...admirably edited and elegantly produced book.' - Times Literary Supplement
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Speckled Bird
Book Subtitle: An Autobiographical Novel with Variant Versions
Authors: W. Yeats
Editors: W. O'Donnell
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2002
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-96614-3Due: 17 December 2002
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 280