Finnegans Wake
by Joyce, James
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Viking Press, 1964. Eleventh Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Cloth in DJ; 628pp; DJ professionally repaired, age-toned & dampstained, with chipping & edgewear & protected by mylar sleeve, boards square, clean & bright, inscrs. to front pastedown, previous owner's name to half-title page, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/Good condition. Major work of 20th century Modernist fiction considered one of the most difficult works in the English language. This edition "embodying all author's corrections."
Synopsis
Finnegans Wake is a work of comic fiction by Irish author James Joyce, significant for an experimental style and its resulting reputation as one of the most difficult works of fiction in the English language. Written in Paris over a period of 17 years, and published in 1939, two years before the author's death, Finnegans Wake was Joyce's final work. -
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015353
- Title
- Finnegans Wake
- Author
- Joyce, James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Eleventh Printing
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1964
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- literature fiction modernism modernist experimental
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