The Restored Finnegans Wake

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The year 2012 has seen the publication by Penguin of a Restored Finnegans Wake, edited by Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon, reportedly chock-full with more than 9,000 amendments to the text. Unfortunately, a list of these changes does not seem to be readily available, making the evaluation of this new edition rather a challenge. The pages below are an attempt to compile just such a list, until an authoritative one is duly published. Beware, though — this list may well be incomplete and at places possibly plagued with its own typos. Use it with care and discretion.

Please note that the "Classic" FW columns in the tables below are based on the Faber-and-Faber and Viking editions of Finnegans Wake (and not on the uncorrected Penguin and Wordsworth editions). Similarly, the "Restored" FW columns are based on the printed Penguin edition, rather than on the limited Houyhnhnm edition published in 2010 (although there is no known reason to assume the two differ) or the electronic Penguin edition (which seems to have quite a bit of artefactual issues of its own, primarily regarding hyphenation, ligatures and indentation).

General Guidelines for the Tables Below:

• No.: Serial numbering (simply in order to maintain the total number of changes identified).
• Line(s): The line or lines of Finnegans Wake (Restored and Classic) where the change is located. Note that line numbering for both editions follows Fweet's method of numbering, as outlined here.
• Text: The relevant text of Finnegans Wake (Restored and Classic).
• Nature of Change: What was changed from the Classic edition to the Restored edition spelled out (as it may not be always immediately evident, especially when the difference is one of spacing or punctuation). Unfortunately, exactly why these had been made remains a mystery for many of the changes.
• Comments: Editorial comments on the change. Wherever JCM is mentioned, it refers to Joyce's post-publication list of Corrections of Misprints in Finnegans Wake (which some might consider rather authoritative). Wherever BMs is mentioned it refers to the British Museum manuscripts of Finnegans Wake.

This list was a work in progress, now sadly abandoned, covering only chapters I.1 to II.2.

Table for chapters I.1–I.4 (1530 rows)

Table for chapters I.5–I.8 (1189 rows)

Table for chapters II.1–II.2 (1221 rows)

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