A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man : (riverrun editions) Paperback / softback
by James Joyce
Part of the riverrun editions series
Paperback / softback
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'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man begins with one of the most arresting opening sentences in literature' Patrick McGuinness, from his Preface. A Portrait first appeared in instalments in the modernist magazine The Egoist in 1914, before it came out as a book in 1916, the year of the Easter Rising against British rule in Ireland.
An autobiographical 'coming of age' story, A Portrait is Joyce's first novel.
Many elements of Joyce's own life - his Catholic schooling, his family circumstances and his father's financial difficulties, as well as his sexual, political and artistic awakenings - are fictionalized and in it he skilfully extend the English language, as it opens with a child's voice rendered by a third-person narrator, and closes with the mature Stephen's first-person reflections.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Quercus Publishing
- Publication Date:14/03/2024
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- ISBN:9781529424393
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In Stock - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Quercus Publishing
- Publication Date:14/03/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781529424393
