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Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin Ser.: Finnegans Wake by James Joyce (1999, UK-B Format Paperback)

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Finnegans Wake, Paperback by Joyce, James, ISBN 0141181265, ISBN-13 9780141181264, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Presents an experimental novel depicting a dream of world history, with characters from literature and history appearing and disappearing, written in a dream language that is a comical mixture of all the languages of Europe.

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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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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0141181265
ISBN-13
9780141181264
eBay Product ID (ePID)
47297

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Book Title
Finnegans Wake
Author
James Joyce
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Classics, Literary, Historical
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
672 Pages

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Item Length
8.3in
Item Height
1.5in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
20.8 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Pr6019.O9f5 1999
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
Grade to
Up
Copyright Date
1999
Lccn
99-050174
Dewey Decimal
823/.912
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin Ser.
Dewey Edition
21

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5 out of 5 stars
by jado-1392Apr 06, 2024
Thoroughly enjoyable read that can start on any page!
Brand new. The author has delivered a seemingly disordered structure of a book, reminiscent of what may occur when plain English is given a holiday.
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by oIorp_A_QqS@Del...Nov 08, 2009
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
It is the one of the most mysterious books in the world and I bought it for my friend. 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. The entire book is written in an idiosyncratic language, consisting of multilingual puns and portmanteau words, which attempts to recreate the experience of sleep and dreams. Due to its expansive linguistic experiments, stream of consciousness writing style, literary allusions, free dream associations, and its abandonment of conventions of plot and character construction, Finnegans Wake remains largely unread by the general public.Read full review
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by armandonavrroJul 01, 2019
I wanted to know
It is the work of a lifetime, the author had some plan to make this work unique. I wanted to find out what it was all about.
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by bcadnow2Apr 06, 2022
Not an easy read.
This book is not an easy read. I have heard the best way to figure some of the lines in the book is to read aloud or when reading just read the sounds. I'll give it a try.
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5 out of 5 stars
by twoc96Oct 03, 2023
future reading
Just beginning this book for a class...so far it is very good.
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