A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN Modern Library

James Joyce

ISBN 10: 0679602321 / ISBN 13: 9780679602323

Published by Modern Library, New York, 1996

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Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket lightly scuffed. States "1996 Modern Library Edition." ; 7.7 X 4.8 X 0.6 inches; 368 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN Modern Library
• Publisher: Modern Library, New York
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679602321
• ISBN 13: 9780679602323
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
• Seller catalogs:
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  • Modern Library

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Synopsis

Published in 1916 to immediate acclaim, James Joyce's semi-autobiographical tale of his alterego, Stephen Dedalus, is a coming-of-age story like no other. A bold, innovative experiment with both language and structure, the work has exerted a lasting influence on the contemporary novel.

About the Author

James Joyce, the twentieth century’s most influential novelist, was born in Dublin on February 2, 1882. The oldest of ten children, he grew up in a family that went from prosperity to penury because of his father’s wastrel behavior. After receiving a rigorous Jesuit education, twenty-year-old Joyce renounced his Catholicism and left Dublin in 1902 to spend most of his life as a writer in exile in Paris, Trieste, Rome, and Zurich. On one trip back to Ireland, he fell in love with the now famous Nora Barnacle on June 16, the day he later chose as “Bloomsday” in his novel Ulysses. Nara was an uneducated Galway girl who became his lifelong companion an the mother of his two children. In debt and drinking heavily, Joyce lived for thirty-six years on the Continent, supporting himself first by teaching jobs, then trough the patronage of Mrs. Harold McCormick (Edith Rockerfeller) and the English feminist and editor Harriet Shaw Weaver. His writings include Chamber music (1907), Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Exiles (1918), Ulysses (1922), Poems Penyeach (1927), Finnegans Wake (1939), and an early draft of A Portrait of a Young Man, Stephan Hero (1944). Ulysses required seven years to complete, and his masterpiece, Finnegans Wake, took seventeen. Both works revolutionized the form, structure, and content of the novel. Joyce died in Zurich in 1941.


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