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Finnegans Wake is the book of Here Comes Everybody and Anna Livia Plurabelle and their family - their book, but in a curious way the book of us all as well as all our books. Joyce's last great work, it is not comprised of many borrowed styles, like Ulysses, but, rather, formulated as one dense, tongue-twisting soundscape.
Titulli: Finnegans wake
Origjinali: Finnegans wake
Gjinia: Roman
Autori: James Joyce
Shtëpia botuese: Wordsworth Classics
Viti: 2012
Fq. 628
Pesha: 0.421 kg
ISBN: 978-1-84022-661-4
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