Finnegans Wake
by JOYCE, James
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Navy blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to front panel and spine and turqoise topstain; minor scuffing to textblock edges, el
- Seller
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East Hampton, New York, United States
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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
- Harper's Books, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29584
- Title
- Finnegans Wake
- Author
- JOYCE, James
- Book Condition
- Used - Navy blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to front panel and spine and turqoise topstain; minor scuffing to textblock edges, el
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- New York: The Viking Press
- Date Published
- 1939
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