Finnegans Wake by James Joyce - ISBN: 9780241405925
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A dreamlike masterpiece of language, sexuality, and betrayal.
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    720 pages

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Summary

James Joyce’s final, dazzlingly experimental masterpiece, with a new introduction by Brian Fox

Joyce’s final work, Finnegans Wake, is his masterpiece of the night, as Ulysses is of the day. Supreme linguistic virtuosity conjures up the dark underground worlds of sexuality and dream. Joyce undermines traditional storytelling and all official forms of English and confronts the different kinds of betrayal - cultural, political and sexual - that he saw at the heart of Ir…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241405925
ISBN-10:0241405920
Author:James Joyce, Seamus Deane, Brian Fox
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:720
Release Date:15 September 2026
Weight:498g
Dimensions:197mm x 130mm x 31mm
Series:Penguin Modern Classics
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Critics Review

A great comic vision, one of the few books of the world that can make us laugh aloud on nearly every page – Anthony Burgess

About The Author

James Joyce

James Joyce was born in Dublin on 2 February 1882, the eldest of ten children in a family which, after brief prosperity, collapsed into poverty. He was none the less educated at the best Jesuit schools and then at University College, Dublin, and displayed considerable academic and literary ability. Although he spent most of his adult life outside Ireland, Joyce’s psychological and fictional universe is firmly rooted in his native Dublin, the city which provides the settings and much of the subject matter for all his fiction. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses (1922) and its controversial successor Finnegans Wake (1939), as well as the short story collection Dubliners (1914) and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). James Joyce died in Z rich, on 13 January 1941.

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