Finnegans Wake

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About the book

Finnegans Wake
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Author
James Joyce, Ireland

First publication
1988

Form
Novel

Genre
Literary

Writing language
English

Length
Approx. 307,000 words

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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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