FINNEGANS WAKE & EXILES (Complete Edition) (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Experimental Novel and Play from the Author of Ulysses, Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man & Chamber MusicBy James Joyce
Length29h 58m
About this audiobook
Bringing together Finnegans Wake and Exiles, this complete edition juxtaposes James Joyce's most audacious linguistic experiment with his only extant play. Finnegans Wake dissolves narrative into dream-language, multilingual punning, mythic recurrence, and cyclical history, extending modernist fiction beyond realism into a radical poetics of consciousness and culture. Exiles, by contrast, adopts a dramatic form shaped by Ibsen, exploring jealousy, freedom, betrayal, and the uneasy ethics of intimacy. James Joyce, born in Dublin in 1882 and self-exiled for much of his adult life, transformed personal displacement into artistic method. His Catholic education, fraught family history, political skepticism, and fascination with Dublin's speech and social codes informed his lifelong interrogation of identity, authority, and desire. After Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses, Joyce pursued ever more demanding forms to capture the instability of modern experience. This volume is essential for readers seeking the full range of Joyce's mature imagination: theatrical, philosophical, comic, erotic, and encyclopedic. It rewards patience, rereading, and annotation, offering not passive entertainment but an encounter with literature at its most challenging and generative.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.3 (79)
Includes Goodreads, Amazon
GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length29 hrs 58 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 17, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1FINNEGANS WAKE & EXILES (Complete Edition) (Annotated)
12II (pt. 3)
2Introduction
13III (pt. 1)
3Author Biography
14III (pt. 2)
4Historical Context
15III (pt. 3)
5Synopsis (Selection)
16III (pt. 4)
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6I (pt. 1)
17IV
7I (pt. 2)
18Exiles (pt. 1)
8I (pt. 3)
19Exiles (pt. 2)
9I (pt. 4)
20Analysis
10II (pt. 1)
21Reflection
11II (pt. 2)
22Memorable Quotes
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