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Finnegans Wake James Joyce Rare 1st Edition / 1st Printing 1939
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Finnegans Wake
Written by James Joyce
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Published by: The Viking Press
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Printed in: 1939
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Pages: 628
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----- Features -----
· Original Black Boards
· Bright Gilt Lettering to spine
· First Printing May 1939
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Condition
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This book is in fair condition. There is a bookstamp in the front and it looks like a bookplate was removed in the rear. There is some wear to the hinges. A few pages have some light foxing, but most of the book is clean. There is some light rubbing to the outside boards and some wear to the edges of the spine. This is the First Edition / First printing of this book, done by The Viking Press in 1939. A very hard to find First edition of Joyce's classic work.
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Synopsis
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Finnegans Wake is a novel by Irish writer James Joyce which is significant for its experimental style and the resulting reputation as one of the most difficult works of fiction in the English language. Written in Paris over a period of seventeen 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 a largely idiosyncratic language, consisting of a mixture of standard English lexical items and neologistic multilingual puns and portmanteau words, which many critics believe attempts to recreate the experience of sleep and dreams. Owing to the work's expansive linguistic experiments, stream of consciousness writing style, literary allusions, free dream associations, and its abandonment of the conventions of plot and character construction, Finnegans Wake remains largely unread by the general public.
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---------- About the Author ----------
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James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (1882 – 1941) was an Irish expatriate author of the 20th century. He is 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). 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. In particular, his tempestuous early relationship with the Irish Roman Catholic Church is reflected through a similar inner conflict in his recurrent alter ego Stephen Dedalus. As the result of his minute attentiveness to a personal locale and his self-imposed exile and influence throughout Europe, notably in Paris, Joyce paradoxically became one of the most cosmopolitan yet one of the most regionally focused of all the English language writers of his time.
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