Finnegans Wake
Author: James Joyce
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 fantastic dream-language, forged from polyglot puns and portmanteau words, the Wake features some of Joyce’s most hilarious characters: the Irish….Read More
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