How Long to Read Finnegans Wake & Exiles

How Long Does it Take to Read Finnegans Wake & Exiles?

It takes the average reader 12 hours and 40 minutes to read Finnegans Wake & Exiles by James Joyce

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Finnegans Wake is a novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It is significant for its experimental style and reputation as one of the most audacious works of fiction in the English language. Written in Paris over a period of seventeen years, and published in 1939, two years before the author's death, Finnegans Wake was Joyce's final work. The book discusses, in an unorthodox fashion, the Earwicker family, comprising the father HCE, the mother ALP, and their three children Shem the Penman, Shaun the Postman, and Issy. Exiles is a play by James Joyce. It draws on the story of "The Dead", the final short story in Joyce's story collection Dubliners. The basic premise of Exiles involves a love triangle between Richard Rowan (a Dublin writer recently returned from exile in Rome), Bertha (his common law wife) and his old friend Robert Hand (a journalist). This arrangement is slightly complicated by a second love triangle, involving Rowan, Hand, and Hand's cousin Beatrice Justice. There are obvious parallels to be drawn with Joyce's own life - Joyce and Nora Barnacle lived, unmarried, in Trieste, during the years the fictional Rowans were living in Rome, while Robert Hand is roughly the same age of Joyce's friends Oliver St. John Gogarty and Vincent Cosgrave, and shares some characteristics with them both. James Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses, a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles, perhaps most prominent among these the stream of consciousness technique he utilized.

How long is Finnegans Wake & Exiles?

Finnegans Wake & Exiles by James Joyce is 760 pages long, and a total of 190,000 words.

This makes it 256% the length of the average book. It also has 232% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Finnegans Wake & Exiles Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 17 hours and 18 minutes to read Finnegans Wake & Exiles aloud.

What Reading Level is Finnegans Wake & Exiles?

Finnegans Wake & Exiles is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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