Finnegans Wake: Wordsworth Classics

Follows the success of Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Chamber Music and Dubliners, all also in the Alma Classics series

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 none the less 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 his fiction. He is best known for his landmark novelUlysses(1922) and its controversial successorFinnegans Wake(1939), as well as the short story collectionDubliners(1914) and the semi-autobiographical novelA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man(1916). James Joyce died in Zürich, on 13 January 1941.

enhances the reader's textual awareness...The captivating, accessible and rich introduction by Finn Fordham enthuses first-time readers
The editors have provided a lucid introduction and a chapter-by-chapter outline which gives one at last a vague hold on what's going on, but it's not overburdened with notes, which frees one to stop worrying and just enjoy the surrealism and exuberance of Joyce's language.