‘The Wake’ is one of the most incomprehensible of classic novels, so not even a bravura performance like this one can clarify the language and story. All praise to the producer Roger Marsh for bringing out the comedy and the literary depths of this legendary book. Just go with the flow, enjoying Barry McGovern’s boisterous but doomed hod-carrier Finnegan and his friends warbling Irish ballads and Marcella Riordan voicing Anna Livia Plurabelle as wonderfully as she did Molly Bloom on Naxos’s Ulysses. You can use an annotated text such as, but I found it too hiccuppy to be glancing down at the footnotes. That way you can revel in the ocean of neologisms, portmanteau words, puns and double entendres that Joyce frolics among like a dolphin on speed. #THE VERY BEST OF THE DUBLINERS DOWNLOAD TORRENT PDF#I recommend getting an ebook version (Kindle’s is only 49p), then watching the words as you listen for half an hour a day the audio’s PDF and chapter heads sketch the plot. It has taken digital audiobooks to make it not only conquerable but hugely enjoyable in its entirety. It is a literary Everest that Joyce took 17 years to write, only for it to remain largely unvisited 82 years on. But I was baffled by Finnegans Wake, especially on flicking to the end to find that its last words were the missing first half of the sentence that begins the book. I loved James Joyce’s Ulysses for its lilting humour, its density of literary reference and glorious puns. Titles by James Joyce Titles by James Joyce Dubliners (unabridged) Dubliners – Part I (unabridged) Dubliners – Part II (unabridged) Finnegans Wake (abridged) Finnegans Wake (unabridged) Molly Bloom’s Soliloquy (unabridged) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (abridged) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (unabridged) Ulysses (abridged) Ulysses (unabridged) Reviews
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