About this book
Summary
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."
First Edition Identification
Faber and Faber in London and Viking Press in New York simultaneously published Finnegans Wake in May 1939. True first editions are bound in yellow cloth with a red spine. The novel was published with a limited print run of just 500 numbered copies signed by Joyce. First editions have sold for upwards of $20,000.
Details
- Title Finnegans Wake
- Author James Joyce
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reissue
- Pages 672
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, New York
- Date 1999-12-01
- Features Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780141181264 / 0141181265
- Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
- Dimensions 8.45 x 5.49 x 1.42 in (21.46 x 13.94 x 3.61 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Ireland
- Ethnic Orientation: Irish
- Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Dreams
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99050174
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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