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]
Roaratorium. The Frogs by Aristophanes. Commentary: Quite a few comments have been posted about The Frogs.
Download: A 81k text-only version is available for download. The FrogsBy Aristophanes Written 405 B.C.EDramatis PersonaeXANTHIAS, servant of DIONYSUSDIONYSUSHERACLESA CORPSECHARONAEACUSA MAID SERVANT OF PERSEPHONEHOSTESS, keeper of cook-shopPLATHANE, her partnerEURIPIDESAESCHYLUSPLUTOCHORUS OF FROGSCHORUS OF BLESSED MYSTICSSceneThe scene shows the house of HERACLES in the background. There enter two travellers: DIONYSUS on foot, in his customary yellow robe and buskins but also with the club and lion's skin of Heracles, and his servant XANTHIAS on a donkey, carrying the luggage on a pole over his shoulder. Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh? Aye, what you will, except "I'm getting crushed": Fight shy of that: I'm sick of that already.
Nothing else smart? Aye, save "my shoulder's aching. " Come now, that comical joke? With all my heart. What? And vow that you've a belly-ache. Main Page - FinnegansWiki. The online shorter Finnegans Wake (FW I.1 thru I.4, ch1-4) [Up: FW overview] [JAJportal] [Prior: Contents] [Robot Wisdom home page] The online shorter Finnegans Wake (FW I.1 thru I.4, ch1-4) Jorn Barger Aug-Sept 1999 (updated May2003) [Anthony Burgess tried to do this too, but I think his version was very, very weak.
All I've done is trim phrases and sections, smoothing the larger gaps with short summaries. In general, this restores the sentence structures of David Hayman's First Draft Version of FW [FDV]. Vanity Fair (1929): "Are the sketches in Work in Progress to be consecutive and interrelated? " Contents FW I.1 thru I.4, ch1-4 # chapter one # the Museyroom # Mutt and Jute # the Prankquean # chapter two # the Cad # the Ballad # chapter three # the Plebiscite # Peaches Browning # chapter four # the Trial FW I.5 thru I.8 , ch5-8 [ # Joyce's reading] FW II.1 , ch9 FW II.2 , ch10 FW II.3 and II.4 , ch11-12 FW III.1 and III.2 , ch13-14 FW III.3 , ch15 FW III.4 , ch16 FW IV , ch17 My leaves have drifted from me.
There's where. Finnegans Wake.