A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce (1882–1941)
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- Reading level: 7th grade
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce is a novel published in 1916. Written in a modernist style, it follows young Stephen Dedalus through his religious and intellectual awakening as he questions and rebels against Catholic and Irish conventions. The work traces Stephen's developing consciousness as he struggles with faith, identity, and artistic ambition, ultimately leading to his self-exile from Ireland to Europe. Joyce employs innovative techniques like free indirect speech to peer into his protagonist's evolving mind in this groundbreaking Künstlerroman.
- Autobiographical fiction
- Bildungsromans
- Young men
- Dublin (Ireland)
- Artists
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Chapter I
Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo....
His father told him that story: his father looked at him through a glass: he had a hairy face.
He was baby tuckoo. The moocow came down the road where Betty Byrne lived: she sold lemon platt.
O, the wild rose blossoms
On the little green place.
He sang that song. That was his song.
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This free edition of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #4217, released 2003-07-01. It is in the public domain in the United States, so you can read it here in full at no cost, on any phone, tablet or computer. Genre: Novels, Classics of Literature, British Literature.
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