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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce

  • 252 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 1916
  • 765 editions
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1 About this book

Stephen Dedalus grows up in Dublin, feeling different from the other boys. His childhood and adolescence are shaped by bullying, his father's weaknesses and the growing realization that in order to make his way in the world he must reject a conventional life and boecome an artist.

Penguin Popular Classics are the perfect introduction to the world-famous Penguin Classics series — which encompasses the best books ever written, from Homer's Odyssey to Orwell's 1984 and everything in between.

Good for readers who want: a classic, a coming-of-age story, and a book they can read free online.

  • Classics
  • Coming of age
  • Psychological fiction
  • Bildungsromans
  • Romance
  • Artists
  • Young men
  • English Manuscripts

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3 About James Joyce

1882–1941

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (born James Augusta Joyce; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist movement and is regarded among the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Joyce's novel Ulysses (1922) is a landmark in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, particularly stream of consciousness.

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