This page attempts to collect in one place as many as possible of the books that James Joyce used as sources for Finnegans Wake, namely those found under the "Books" brevity on the search engine page. Unless otherwise noted, all the files are in PDF format (i.e. require Foxit Reader, Acrobat Reader or some such to open) and were obtained primarily from the Internet Archive (with a few found at Google Books and Gallica). To the best of my knowledge, all the books are in the public domain (at least in Canada, where Fweet is based). If you know of other source books available in electronic format, please let me know.
General Guidelines for the Table Below:
Notes on Multi-Volume Books:
| Title | Open Book | Run Search |
|---|---|---|
| —: Irish Rivers - No. X, The Tolka, in The Dublin University Magazine, vol. XLII, no. CCL: 391-404, October 1853 | Open [55.4 MB] | Run Search |
| —: The Apocryphal New Testament, translated by Montague Rhodes James, 1924 | Open [48.1 MB] | Run Search |
| —: The Catholic Encyclopedia, 15 vols, 1913 | — | Run Search |
| volume I [Aachen to Assize] | Open [77.1 MB] | Run Search |
| volume II [Assize to Brownr] | Open [79.4 MB] | Run Search |
| volume III [Brow to Clancy] | Open [80.1 MB] | Run Search |
| volume IV [Cland to Diocesan] | Open [82.8 MB] | Run Search |
| volume V [Diocese to Fathers] | Open [79.3 MB] | Run Search |
| volume VI [Fathers to Gregory] | Open [82.9 MB] | Run Search |
| volume VII [Gregory to Infallibility] | Open [84.6 MB] | Run Search |
| volume VIII [Infamy to Lapparent] | Open [83.6 MB] | Run Search |
| volume IX [Laprade to Mass] | Open [88.8 MB] | Run Search |
| volume X [Mass to Newman] | Open [84.6 MB] | Run Search |
| volume XI [New Mexico to Philip] | Open [83.3 MB] | Run Search |
| volume XII [Philip to Revalidation] | Open [81.5 MB] | Run Search |
| volume XIII [Revelation to Simon Stock] | Open [101.2 MB] | Run Search |
| volume XIV [Simony to Tournély] | Open [81.7 MB] | Run Search |
| volume XV [Tournon to Zwirner] | Open [79.1 MB] | Run Search |
| —: The Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed., 29 vols, 1910-11 | — | Run Search |
| volume I [A to Androphagi] | Open [79.2 MB] | Run Search |
| volume II [Andros to Austria] | Open [92.8 MB] | Run Search |
| volume III [Austria Lower to Bisectrix] | Open [82.7 MB] | Run Search |
| volume IV [Bishārīn to Calgary] | Open [92.5 MB] | Run Search |
| volume V [Calhoun to Chatelaine] | Open [89.0 MB] | Run Search |
| volume VI [Châtelet to Constantine] | Open [81.6 MB] | Run Search |
| volume VII [Constantine Pavlovich to Demidov] | Open [78.0 MB] | Run Search |
| volume VIII [Demijohn to Edward] | Open [78.6 MB] | Run Search |
| volume IX [Edwardes to Evangelical Association] | Open [85.7 MB] | Run Search |
| volume X [Evangelical Church to Francis Joseph] | Open [73.7 MB] | Run Search |
| volume XI [Franciscans to Gibson] | Open [84.2 MB] | Run Search |
| volume XII [Gichtel to Harmonium] | Open [77.7 MB] | Run Search |
| volume XIII [Harmony to Hurstmonceaux] | Open [79.2 MB] | Run Search |
| volume XIV [Husband to Italic] | Open [79.2 MB] | Run Search |
| volume XV [Italy to Kyshtym] | Open [80.8 MB] | Run Search |
| volume XVI [L to Lord Advocate] | Open [85.1 MB] | Run Search |
| volume XVII [Lord Chamberlain to Mecklenburg] | Open [87.6 MB] | Run Search |
| volume XVIII [Medal to Mumps] | Open [83.3 MB] | Run Search |
| volume XIX [Mun to Oddfellows] | Open [86.7 MB] | Run Search |
| volume XX [Ode to Payment of Members] | Open [103.8 MB] | Run Search |
| volume XXI [Payn to Polka] | Open [85.0 MB] | Run Search |
| volume XXII [Poll to Reeves] | Open [85.0 MB] | Run Search |
| volume XXIII [Refectory to Sainte-Beuve] | Open [91.3 MB] | Run Search |
| volume XXIV [Sainte-Clair Deville to Shuttle] | Open [93.8 MB] | Run Search |
| volume XXV [Shuválov to Subliminal Self] | Open [88.4 MB] | Run Search |
| volume XXVI [Submarine Mines to Tom-Tom] | Open [94.1 MB] | Run Search |
| volume XXVII [Tonalite to Vesuvius] | Open [90.2 MB] | Run Search |
| volume XXVIII [Vetch to Zymotic Diseases] | Open [98.0 MB] | Run Search |
| volume XXIX [Index] | Open [130.8 MB] | Run Search |
| —: The Scottish Clans and their Tartans, 12th ed., 1918 | Open [36.8 MB] | Run Search |
| Ardill, Rev. John Roche: St. Patrick, A.D. 180, 1931 | Open [3.3 MB] | Run Search |
| Aston, W.G.: A Grammar of the Japanese Spoken Language, 4th ed., 1888 | Open [11.3 MB] | Run Search |
| Booth, General: In Darkest England and the Way Out, 1890 | Open [99.7 MB] | Run Search |
| Campbell, Mrs. Patrick (Beatrice Stella Cornwallis-West): My Life and Some Letters, 1922 | Open [20.9 MB] | Run Search |
| Chart, D.A.: The Story of Dublin, 1907 | Open [25.6 MB] | Run Search |
| Chiniquy, Father: The Priest, the Woman and the Confessional, 1880 | Open [23.4 MB] | Run Search |
| Clodd, Edward: The Story of the Alphabet, rev. ed., 1915 | Open [12.8 MB] | Run Search |
| Collins, James: Life in Old Dublin, 1913 | Open [12.4 MB] | Run Search |
| Commelin, P.: Nouvelle Mythologie, Grecque et Romaine, 1907 | Open [16.7 MB] | Run Search |
| Corkery, Daniel: The Hounds of Banba, 1920 | Open [9.8 MB] | Run Search |
| Crawford, D.: Thinking Black, 22 Years without a Break in the Long Grass of Central Africa, 1912 | Open [36.3 MB] | Run Search |
| Crawford, Dan: Back to the Long Grass, My Link with Livingstone, 1923 | Open [22.4 MB] | Run Search |
| Evans, Caradoc: My People, Stories of the Peasantry of West Wales, 1915 | Open [7.5 MB] | Run Search |
| FitzGerald, Edward: Miscellanies, 1900 | Open [10.5 MB] | Run Search |
| Fitzpatrick, Benedict: Ireland and the Making of Britain, 3rd ed., 1921 | Open [38.2 MB] | Run Search |
| Flood, J.M.: Ireland, Its Saints and Scholars, 1917 | Open [10.2 MB] | Run Search |
| Gwynn, Stephen: The History of Ireland, 1923 | Open [38.0 MB] | Run Search |
| Haliday, Charles: The Scandinavian Kingdom of Dublin, 1881 | Open [36.0 MB] | Run Search |
| Harris, Frank: Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions, 2 vols, 1918 | — | Run Search |
| volume I | Open [27.0 MB] | Run Search |
| volume II | Open [26.9 MB] | Run Search |
| Henry, O.: The Four Million, 1906 | Open [11.7 MB] | Run Search |
| Hughes, Rev. S.C.: The Pre-Victorian Drama in Dublin, 1904 | Open [9.2 MB] | Run Search |
| Hunt, Rev. W.S.: India's Outcastes, A New Era, 1924 | Open [26.6 MB] | Run Search |
| Jespersen, Otto: Language, its Nature, Development and Origin, 1922 | Open [38.8 MB] | Run Search |
| Joyce, P.W.: English as We Speak It in Ireland, 1910 | Open [20.7 MB] | Run Search |
| Key, Pierre V.R.: John McCormack, His Own Life Story, 1918 | Open [26.4 MB] | Run Search |
| Kinane, Very Rev. Dean: St. Patrick, His Life, His Heroic Virtues, His Labours, and the Fruits of His Labours, 11th ed. (1890s) | Open [14.2 MB] | Run Search |
| Lamy, Thomas Josephus: Commentarium in Librum Geneseos, 2 vols, 1883-4 | Open [32.2 MB] | Run Search |
| Lawless, Emily: The Story of Ireland, 1888 | Open [35.6 MB] | Run Search |
| Lane-Poole, Stanley: The Speeches & Table-Talk of the Prophet Mohammad, 1882 | Open [10.1 MB] | Run Search |
| Levey, R.M. & O'Rorke, J.: Annals of the Theatre Royal, Dublin, 1880 | Open [15.7 MB] | Run Search |
| Mackirdy, Mrs. Archibald (Olive Christian Malvery) & Willis, W.N.: The White Slave Market, 3rd ed. (1910s) | Open [35.2 MB] | Run Search |
| Meillet, A. & Cohen, Marcel: Les Langues du Monde, par un groupe de linguistes sous la direction de, 1924 | Open [68.6 MB] | Run Search |
| Molloy, J. Fitzgerald: The Romance of the Irish Stage, 2 vols, 1897 | — | Run Search |
| volume I | Open [12.5 MB] | Run Search |
| volume II | Open [11.5 MB] | Run Search |
| Mordell, Albert: The Erotic Motive in Literature, 1919 | Open [10.0 MB] | Run Search |
| Rothschild, Arthur de: Histoire de la Poste aux Lettres depuis ses Origines les Plus Anciennes jusqu'à nos Jours, 2nd ed., 1873 | Open [4.9 MB] | Run Search |
| Sainéan, L.: La Langue de Rabelais, 2 vols, 1922 | — | Run Search |
| volume I | Open [28.3 MB] | Run Search |
| volume II | Open [31.6 MB] | Run Search |
| Schuré, Édouard: Les Grandes Légendes de France, 1892 | Open [8.8 MB] | Run Search |
| Sheed, F.J., ed.: The Irish Way, 1932 | Open [16.4 MB] | Run Search |
| Swedenborg, Emanuel: Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and Concerning the Divine Wisdom, translated by Swedenborg Society, 1883 | Open [26.2 MB] | Run Search |
| Walsh, A.: Scandinavian Relations with Ireland during the Viking Period, 1922 | Open [5.2 MB] | Run Search |
| Young, Filson: Trial of Frederick Bywaters and Edith Thompson, 1923 | Open [20.7 MB] | Run Search |
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