Book · 1916 · Fiction

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Name: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Author: James Joyce

Penguin Books (Penguin Random House) · 329 pages

★ 8.7 editorial score

Stephen Dedalus grows from a small boy into a young man set on leaving Ireland to make art. The prose matures sentence by sentence with him, from baby talk to fierce argument.

Genre

Modernism Coming of age Semi-autobiography

Medium

Novel

Subject

Youth Art Beauty Ireland

Setting

Dublin

Time

1916Depicts 1900s

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