9780141181264-0141181265-Finnegans Wake (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)

Finnegans Wake (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)

ISBN-13: 9780141181264
ISBN-10: 0141181265
Edition: Reissue
Author: James Joyce
Publication date: 1999
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback 672 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780141181264
ISBN-10: 0141181265
Edition: Reissue
Author: James Joyce
Publication date: 1999
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback 672 pages

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Finnegans Wake (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) (ISBN-13: 9780141181264 and ISBN-10: 0141181265), written by authors James Joyce, was published by Penguin Classics in 1999. With an overall rating of 4.3 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Finnegans Wake (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.52.

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Having done the longest day in literature with his monumental Ulysses, James Joyce set himself even greater challenges for his next book — the night.

"A nocturnal state...That is what I want to convey: what goes on in a dream, during a dream." The work, which would exhaust two decades of his life and the odd resources of some sixty languages, culminated in the 1939 publication of Joyce's final and most revolutionary masterpiece, Finnegans Wake.

A story with no real beginning or end (it ends in the middle of a sentence and begins in the middle of the same sentence), this "book of Doublends Jined" is as remarkable for its prose as for its circular structure. Written in a fantantic dream language, forged from polyglot puns and portmanteau words, the Wake features some of Joyce's most brilliant inventive work. Sixty years after its original publication, it remains, in Anthony Burgess's words, "a great comic vision, one of the few books of the world that can make us laugh aloud on nearly every page."

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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