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Anna Livia Plurabelle (Faber Modern Classics Edition)

James Joyce

This edition in the Faber Modern Classics series includes a new foreword by Edna O’Brien.

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£9.99
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571333714
Date Published
02.02.2017
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Summary

As James Joyce was working on Finnegans Wake, he asked his friend T.S. Eliot to shepherd an early extract, simply known as ‘Work in Progress’ into print. This celebrated episode, Anna Livia Plurabelle, was the first part of Joyce’s extraordinary text to be published in England, printed in pamphlet form in 1930. It became the best-known section of Finnegans Wake, and one of Joyce’s favourites; revised and published independently more times than any other piece. This new edition in the Faber Modern Classics series includes a new foreword by Edna O’Brien.

‘His writing is not about something; it is that something itself.’ Samuel Beckett

JamesJoyce

James Joyce was born in Rathgar, Dublin, in 1882. In 1904 he and Nora Barnacle (whom he married in 1931) left Ireland for Trieste. Abroad, free from the restrictions he felt in Ireland, Joyce felt compelled to write of his native land, producing Dubliners (1914) and A Portrait of the Artist as Young Man (1916). During World War I, he…

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