Finnegan's Wake, conceded in a second. Dubliners, though? Or Portrait of an Artist? Those are readily accessible to anybody and obviously very, very good. Uly

Finnegan's Wake, conceded in a second. Dubliners, though? Or Portrait of an Artist? Those are readily accessible to anybody and obviously very, very good. Ulysses I like, but agree it may be too dense to merit the accolades it's given. But "trash" goes way, way over into the opposite direction.