PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN; With an Introduction by Hugh Kenner / and Illustrated by Brian Keogh

Joyce, James

Published by The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1977

About this Item

Smal quarto, green tooled leather embossed with .22 caret gold shamrocks on spine (with 4 hubs) and front cover; Introduction by Hugh Kenner, Illustrated by Brian Keogh, god silk moiré endpapers & ribbon page-marker; all edges gilt [a.e.g.]; xivii, [xviii-xx] + 253, [254] pages + [5] ads. BRILLIANT COPY! A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) was the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. A Künstlerroman in a modernist style, it traces the religious and intellectual awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter ego of Joyce and an allusion to Daedalus, the consummate craftsman of Greek mythology. James Joyce (1882 - 1941) was a brilliant Irish novelist, short story writer, modernist and poet. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922). Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN; With an Introduction by Hugh Kenner / and Illustrated by Brian Keogh
• Publisher: The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut
• Publication Date: 1977
• Binding: Cloth
• Illustrator: Brian Keogh
• Edition: First Collector's Edition.
• Condition: Very Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature & Fiction