Reading Time
10 hrs 18 mins
How long to read A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake: Unlocking James Joyce's Masterwork?
The estimated word count of A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake: Unlocking James Joyce's Masterwork is 154,380 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 10 hrs 18 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 17 hrs 10 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 5 hrs 44 mins.
| A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake: Unlocking James Joyce's Masterwork - 154,380 words | ||
|---|---|---|
| Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
| Slow | 150 words/min | 17 hrs 10 mins |
| Average | 250 words/min | 10 hrs 18 mins |
| Fast | 450 words/min | 5 hrs 44 mins |
- Authors
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Joseph CampbellHenry Morton Robinson
More about A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake: Unlocking James Joyce's Masterwork
154,380 words
Word Count
for A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake: Unlocking James Joyce's Masterwork
400 pages
Pages
16 hours and 36 minutes
Audiobook length
Description
Since its publication in 1939, countless would-be readers of Finnegans Wake James Joyce's masterwork that consumed a third of his life have given up after a few pages and dismissed it as a "perverse triumph of the unintelligible." In 1944, a young professor of mythology and literature named Joseph Campbell, working with Henry Morton Robinson, wrote the first "key" or guide to entering the fascinating, disturbing, marvelously rich world of Finnegans Wake. The authors break down Joyce's "unintelligible" book page by page, stripping the text of much of its obscurity and serving up thoughtful interpretations via footnotes and bracketed commentary. A Skeleton Key was Campbell's first book, published five years before he wrote his breakthrough Hero with a Thousand Faces.