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Finnegans Wake

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First publication
1988

Literature form
Novel

Genres
Literary

Writing language
English

Author's country
Ireland

Length
Approx. 307,000 words

Notable lines

riverrun, past Eve and Adams, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth, Castle and Environs.

— First line

In the name of Annah the Allmaziful, the Everliving, the Bringer of Plurabilities, haloed be her eve, her singtime sung, her rill be run, unhemmed as it is uneven!

 

Quoiquoiquoiquoiquoiquoi-quoiq!

 

Sleep, where in the waste is the wisdom?

 

Be sage about sausages!

 

A way a lone a last a loved a long the

— Last line

 

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See also:

Laurence Sterne

Tristram Shandy

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