As James Joyce was working on Finnegans Wake, he asked his friend T.S. Eliot to shepherd an early extract, simply known as `Work in Progress` into print. This celebrated episode, Anna Livia Plurabelle, was the first part of Joyce`s extraordinary text to be published in England, printed in pamphlet form in 1930.

It became the best-known section of Finnegans Wake, and one of Joyce`s favourites, revised and published independently more times than any other piece. This new edition in the Faber Modern Classics series includes a new foreword by Edna O`Brien.
`His writing is not about something, it is that something itself.` - Samuel Beckett