A collection of essays about ‘Work In Progress’, which would be published as Finnegans Wake ten years later. The two ‘Letters of Protest’ are by Joyce. Beckett’s contribution, ‘Dante... Bruno. Vico.. Joyce’ is the author’s first appearance in print. His first novel, only published in 1992 after his death but probably written c. 1932, was called ‘Dream of Fair to Middling Women’. That title is adapted from Tennyson’s poem but was used unaltered by Henry Williamson for one of his novels, published by Faber and included as No. 14 in the list of ‘The Faber Library’ on the back panel of the jacket of this book. Norman Nicholson (1914-87), from Millom in Cumbria, was a poet (published by Faber), novelist, biographer and essayist.