Finnegans Wake

Publications 1924-1939

Details of the serial publication.

Compiled by Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon

Finnegans Wake Publications 1924-1939

1924

“From Work in Progress” (II 4): Transatlantic Review, vol. 1, no 4 (April, 1924) pp. 215-223.

1925

“From Work in Progress” (I.2§1): Contact Collection of Contemporary Writers, (Paris: May, 1925) pp. 133-136.

“Fragment of an Unpublished Work” (I.5): Criterion, vol. III, no. xii (London: July, 1925) pp. 498-510.

“A New Unnamed Work” (I.5): Two Worlds vol. I, no. 1, (New York: September 1925) pp. 46-55.

“From Work in Progress” (I.8): Le Navire d'argent 1re année, no. 5 (Paris: 30 September 1925) pp. 59-74.
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“A New Unnamed Work” (I.2§1): Two Worlds vol. I, no. 2, (New York: December, 1925) pp. 111-114.

“Extract from Work in Progress” (I.7): This Quarter, vol. I, no. 2 (Milan: November, 1925) pp. 108-124.

1926

“A New Unnamed Work” (I.8): Two Worlds vol. I, no. 3, (New York: March, 1926) pp. 347-360.

“A New Unnamed Work” (I.7): Two Worlds vol. I, no. 4, (New York: June, 1926) pp. 545-560.

“A New Unnamed Work” (II.4): Two Worlds vol. Two, no. 5, (New York: September, 1926) pp. 35-40.

1927

“Opening Pages of a Work in Progress” (I.1): transition, no 1 (Paris: April, 1927), pp. 9-30.
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“Continuation of a Work in Progress” (I.2): transition, no 2 (Paris: May, 1927), pp. 94-107.
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“Continuation of a Work in Progress” (I.3): transition, no 3 (Paris: June, 1927), pp. 32-50.
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“Continuation of a Work in Progress” (I.4): transition, no 4 (Paris: July, 1927), pp. 46-65.
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“Continuation of a Work in Progress” (I.5): transition, no 5 (Paris: August, 1927), pp. 15-31.

“Continuation of a Work in Progress” (I.6): transition, no 6 (Paris: September, 1927), pp. 87-106f.
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“Continuation of a Work in Progress” (I.7): transition, no 7 (Paris: October, 1927), pp. 34-56.
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“Continuation of a Work in Progress” (I.8): transition, no 8 (Paris: November, 1927), pp. 17-35.
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1928

“Continuation of a Work in Progress” (II.2§8): transition, no 11 (Paris: February, 1928), pp. 7-18.
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“Continuation of a Work in Progress” (III§1): transition, no 12 (Paris: March, 1928), pp. 7-27.
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“Continuation of a Work in Progress” (III§2): transition, no 13, American number (Paris: Summer, 1928), pp. 5-32
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James Joyce, Anna Livia Plurabelle (I.8): New York: Crosby Gaige, October 1928.
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1929

“Continuation of a Work in Progress” (III§3): transition, no 15 (Paris: February, 1929), pp. 197-238.
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“A Muster from Work in Progress” (I.2§1 and fragments of I.4, I.3, III.2, III.1, I.1 and I.3), in Transition Stories, ed. Eugene Jolas and Robert Sage (New York: Walter V. McKee, 1929). pp.181-191.

James Joyce, Tales Told of Shem and Shaun / Three Fragments from Work in Progress (I.6§3, II.2§8 and III§1C): Paris: The Black Sun Press, August 1929.
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“Continuation of a Work in Progress” (III§4): transition, no 18 (Paris: November, 1929), pp. 211-236.
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1930

James Joyce, Haveth Childers Everywhere / Fragment from Work in Progress (III§3B): Paris: Henri Babou and Jack Kahane, April 1930.
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James Joyce, Anna Livia Plurabelle (I.8): London: Faber and Faber, May 1930.

“From Tales Told of Shem and Shaun” (III.§1C fragment): Imagist Anthology 1930 (London, May 1930), pp. 121-122.

1931

James Joyce, Haveth Childers Everywhere / Fragment of Work in Progress (III§3B): London: Faber and Faber, April 1931.

1932

James Joyce, Two Tales of Shem and Shaun / Fragments from Work in Progress (I.6§3 and III§1C): London: Faber and Faber, November 1932.

1933

“Continuation of a Work in Progress” (II.1): transition, no 22 (Paris: February, 1933), pp. 49-76.

1934

“The Mime of Mick, Nick and the Maggies” (final paragraphs of II.1): Les amis de 1914: Bulletin Hebdomadaire de l'Academie de la Coupole no 40 (Paris: 23 February, 1934).

James Joyce, The Mime of Mick, Nick and the Maggies / A Fragment from Work in Progress (II.1): The Hague: The Servire Press, June 1934.
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1935

“Continuation of Work in Progress” (II.2§1-3 and §9): transition, no 23 (Paris: July, 1935), pp. 109-129.

1937

“Work in Progress / Opening pages of Part Two, Section Three” (II.3§1): transition, no 26 (New York: February, 1937), pp. 35-52.

1938

James Joyce, Storiella as She is Syung / A Section of "Work in Progress" (II.2§1-3 and §9): London: Corvinus Press, February 1938.

“A Phoenix Park Nocturne” (II.1 fragment): Verve vol. I no. 2 (Paris, March 1938).
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“Fragment from Work in Progress / {Part II, Section 3)” (II.3§4-5): transition, no 27 (Paris: April-May, 1938), pp. 59-78.
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1939

James Joyce, Finnegans Wake: London, Faber and Faber, 4 May 1939.