A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake; unlocking James Joyce's masterwork

Novato, Calif: New World Library, 2005. First edition, first printing (full number line). Hardcover. Fine in fine DJ.. Hardcover quarto in green and color illustrated DJ. xxvi, 402 pages; 23 cm. Lovely copy. Joseph Campbell Foundation. Series: Collected works of Joseph Campbell; Abstract: Page by page, chapter by chapter, [this book] outlines the basic action of [Finnegans Wake], simplifies and clarifies the complex web of images and illusions, and provides an understandable continuous narrative from which the reader can venture out on his own.-front flap. Contents: About the Collected Works of Joseph Campbell --; Foreword and Editorial Note to the Collected Works Edition --; Introduction to a Strange Subject --; Synopsis and Demonstration --; The Book of the Parents --; Finnegan's Fall --; HCE-His Agnomen and Reputation --; HCE-His Trial and Incarceration --; HCE-His Demise and Resurrection --; The Manifesto of ALP --; Riddles-The Personages of the Manifesto --; Shem the Penman --; The Washers at the Ford --; The Book of the Sons --; The Children's Hour --; The Study Period-Triv and Quad --; Tavernry in Feast --; Bride-Ship and Gulls --; The Book of the People --; Shaun before the People --; Jaun before St. Bride's --; Yawn under Inquest --; HCE and ALP-Their Bed of Trial --; Ricorso --; A Joseph Campbell Bibliogrpahy --; About the Joseph Campbell Foundation. Psychological fiction, English -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. Dreams in literature -- Psychological fiction. Nonfiction.