Auburn. <p class="srch_txt srch_warn"> Warning: Many features on this page require a browser that supports JavaScript (ver. 1.2). It seems your browser has its JavaScript support disabled. Please enable your JavaScript support to use this page (you may send a comment through the 'Comment on Me! ' page (accessible by clicking on the '[Site Map]' link on the very bottom of this page, then clicking on the 'Comment on Me! ' link) if you do not know how this is done). </p> This is the big wide search engine. Fweet is free. Utilities: Recommended Citation: Slepon, Raphael, ed. Finnegans Web. FinnegansWiki. Finnegans Wake. Despite these obstacles, readers and commentators have reached a broad consensus about the book's central cast of characters and, to a lesser degree, its plot.
However, a number of key details remain elusive.[6][7] 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. Following an unspecified rumour about HCE, the book, in a nonlinear dream narrative,[8] follows his wife's attempts to exonerate him with a letter, his sons' struggle to replace him, Shaun's rise to prominence, and a final monologue by ALP at the break of dawn.
The work has since come to assume a preeminent place in English literature, despite its numerous detractors. Anthony Burgess has praised the book as "a great comic vision, one of the few books of the world that can make us laugh aloud on nearly every page Background and composition[edit] Chapter summaries[edit] Book I[edit] Book II[edit] Finnegans Wake text.