Finnegans Wake Author:James Joyce The last great work of the twentieth century's most influential writer. — Finnegan's Wake "is a mighty allegory of the fall and redemption of mankind ... a compound of fable, symphony, and nightmare.... Its mechanics resemble those of a dream, a dream which has freed the author from the necessities of common logic and has enabled him to compress ... more »all periods of history, all phases of individual and racial development, into a circular design, of which every part is beginning, middle, and end." This modern classic is here made available for the first time in an inexpensive edition. The multitude of corrections Joyce himself made in the finished book just before his death, which were previously included as an appendix, are now incorporated in the text.« less