Finnegans Wake Summary
James Joyce

Finnegans Wake Summary

Finnegan's Wake is a classic of modern Irish literature. The author represents the tremendous effort by the Irish to reclaim and reassert their ethnic identity after conquest by the English in Britain. The author was an Irishman who proved the adage that money does not make the man. Ireland had succeeded in establishing high quality schools and through this, thanks largely to this gift, he willingly proved himself to be a...

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