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

"Published a century ago, Joyce’s debut gave voice to common Irish Catholic experience – and courage to generations of later writers." -Colm Tóibín ; The Guardian<br/><br/>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. A coming of age story 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.<br/><br/>Stephen questions and rebels against the Catholic and Irish conventions under which he has grown, culminating in his self-exile from Ireland to Europe. The work uses techniques that Joyce developed more fully in Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939).<br/>The publication of A Portrait and the short story collection Dubliners (1914) earned Joyce a place at the forefront of literary modernism. A True Classic that Belongs on Every Bookshelf!