num_pages: 329
description: James Joyce's autobiographical A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a vivid portrayal of emotional and intellectual development. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Seamus Deane.The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is also an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce and a universal testament to the artist's 'eternal imagination'. Both an insight into Joyce's life and childhood, and a work of modernist fiction.
language: English
title: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
titlecomplete: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
characters: Simon Dedalus, Mary Dedalus, Fr. John Conmee, Stephen Dedalus
genres: 20th Century, Ireland, Literary Fiction, Novels, School, Literature, Classic Literature, Classics, Irish Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 148058
places: Ireland, Clongowes Wood College, Kildare
publisher: Penguin Books /Penguin Classics