{"product_id":"9781473395831","title":"Finnegans Wake","description":"Joyce's masterpiece. . . . If aesthetic merit were ever again to center the canon Finnegans Wake would be as close as our chaos could come to the heights of Shakespeare and Dante.\" --Harold Bloom, in \u003ci\u003eThe Western Canon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaving done the longest day in literature with  his monumental Ulysses (1922), James Joyce set himself an even greater challenge 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 with the 1939 publication of Joyce's final and most revolutionary work, \u003ci\u003eFinnegans Wake\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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 \u003ci\u003eWake\u003c\/i\u003e features some of Joyce's most hilarious characters: the Irish barkeep Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker, Shem the Penman, Shaun the Postman, and Anna Livia Plurabelle. Sixty years after its 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.\"  ","brand":"Read Books Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47141568741616,"sku":"9781473395831","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781473395831_p0.jpg?v=1769892856","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781473395831","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}