Finnegans Wake
$27.36
- Paperback
720 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2026
Summary
James Joyce’s final, dazzlingly experimental masterpiece, with a new introduction by Brian Fox
‘A great comic vision, one of the few books of the world that can make us laugh aloud on nearly every page’ - Anthony Burgess
James Joyce’s final work, Finnegans Wake, conjures up the dark underground worlds of sexuality and dream with supreme linguistic virtuosity. Here Joyce undermines traditional storytelling and the English language, and confronts the different kinds of betrayal …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241405925 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241405920 |
| Author: | James Joyce, Brian Fox, Andrew Gibson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 720 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2026 |
| Weight: | 498g |
| Dimensions: | 31mm x 130mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
A great comic vision, one of the few books of the world that can make us laugh aloud on nearly every page – Anthony Burgess
James Joyce
James Joyce was born in Dublin on 2 February 1882, the eldest of ten children in a family which, after brief prosperity, collapsed into poverty. He was nonetheless educated at the best Jesuit schools and then at University College, Dublin, and displayed considerable academic and literary ability.
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 of his fiction.
He is best 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).
James Joyce died in Zurich, on 13 January 1941.
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