Finnegans Wake

by James Joyce

“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”—opening line of Finnegans Wake (1939) by James Joyce, which famously starts mid-sentence. As Len Platt, Professor of Modern Literatures at Goldsmiths, writes in the introduction to the Wordsworth edition: Joyce’s last important work “remains his most challenging by a very long way. Its great strangeness alienated many of Joyce’s earlier readers.”