Original sentence: "  After seventeen years of labor the book was finally published in 1939.Finnegans Wake is the last novel written by James Joyce.Others, including Samuel Beckett and William Carlos Williams, published a book of essays defending and explaining the new work under the title Our Exagmination Round His Factification For Incamination Of Work In Progress 1929.Some admirers of Ulysses were disappointed that none of its characters reappeared in the new work, and that Joyce's linguistic experiments were making it increasingly difficult to pick out any continuous thread of a plot
Edited sentence: "  After seventeen years of labor the book was finally published in 1939, but was generally dismissed as unreadable.Fans of Ulysses were disappointed that none of its characters reappeared in the new work, and even more dismayed that Joyce's linguistic experiments were making it increasingly difficult to pick out any continuous thread of a plot.Finnegans Wake is the baffling last novel written by James Joyce