Re-listed at half original price.Since its publication in 1939, countless would-be readers of Finnegan’s 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, marvellously rich world of Finnegan’s 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. Book is in very good condition, looks hardly read, hardback with dust jacket, also in good condition.