Published in 1939, 'Finnegans Wake' is Joyce's final masterpiece. Seventeen years in the writing, it represents the culmination of his experiments with literary form and language.

As 'Ulysses' charted the wanderings of Leopold Bloom over the course of twenty-four hours in Dublin, so 'Finnegans Wake' encapsulates the whole of mankind's history in the dreams of one man, H.C. Earwicker, during a single, restless night. At once baffling and revealing, rich with mythology and symbolism, 'Finnegans Wake' is a great rushing stream of consciousness, an unrepeatable performance of linguistic virtuosity that, more than any novel this century, stretches the boundaries of the imagination to the absolute limit.

"With enormous genius an erudition, Joyce has actually invented a new language in 'Finnegans Wake'."

STEPHEN SPENDER

"In conception as well as in execution, 'Finnegans Wake' is one of the boldest books ever written. A great work of literature."

EDMUND WILSON