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Help me find a gift-worthy copy of Finnegans Wake?

desuetude — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:08:27 -0800

For his birthday, my SO confessed that he would like a "really nice" version of Finnegans Wake. This proves to be harder to find than I would've thought. Googling gets me everything I ever wanted to know about Joyce, and Amazon gives me a zillion paperbacks and study guides.

I'd like a hardback edition. I don't want a "Great Classics of Literature" type edition (i.e. one of a series.)

I know that he would not be interested in an annotated version. Is there an edition including the Exagmination?

Have you read/heard of a story about an Irish man travelling in Tibet who gets buried according to Finnegan's Wake?

Kattullus — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:45:22 -0800

A story has come to me through the telephone game that is society that has piqued my interest. Does anyone have a source for the following story, which I presume is fictional: An Irish man dies while travelling in Tibet, and the only piece of literature they have about Ireland and Irish funeral customs is Finnegan's Wake.

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dead_ — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 08:39:01 -0800

Has Finnegans Wake ever been translated? How?