James Joyce's Finnegans Wake: A Reading by Patrick Healy

In January 1992 Patrick Healy read the complete text of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake in Bow Lane Recording Studios, Dublin, over a four-day period. Finnegans Wake had never been recorded in its entirety despite Joyce’s recommendation that the text should be heard rather than read. The unabridged twenty-hour recording is released in a box-set of 17 compact discs with a limited run of 1000. Each set is accompanied by Healy’s 128-page book, The Modern and the Wake, featuring key essays on Finnegans Wake and its performance. Healy’s work affords unique access to one of English literature’s most difficult but rewarding literary achievements of the twentieth century.