A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Popular Classics) - Softcover

Joyce, James

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9780140622300: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Popular Classics)

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ISBN 10: 0140622306 ISBN 13: 9780140622300

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1996

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The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is also an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce and a universal testament to the artist's 'eternal imagination'.

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Book Description:

A highly autobiographical tale of the growth of a young man's mind, and his striving for independence.

About the Author:

James Joyce was born in Dublin on 2 February 1882, the eldest of ten children in a family which, after brief prosperity, collapsed into poverty. He was none the less educated at the best Jesuit schools and then at University College, Dublin, and displayed considerable academic and literary ability. Although he spent most of his adult life outside Ireland, Joyce's psychological and fictional universe is firmly rooted in his native Dublin, the city which provides the settings and much of the subject matter for all his fiction. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses (1922) and its controversial successor Finnegans Wake (1939), as well as the short story collection Dubliners (1914) and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). James Joyce died in Z�rich, on 13 January 1941.

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