num_pages: 253
description: Joyce wrote the first draft of a work he called Stephen Hero between 1901 and 1906, but was dissatisfied and later wrote and developed it. He partially destroyed this version in a fit of rage when it was turned down by a publisher, and again rewrote the work in the form in which it was finally published in 1916 as A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
language: English
title: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
titlecomplete: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
characters: Stephen Dedalus, Mary Dedalus, Fr. John Conmee, Simon Dedalus
genres: Fiction, Ireland, Classic Literature, School, Literature, Classics, Novels, Irish Literature, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 148100
places: Ireland, Clongowes Wood College, Kildare
publisher: Penguin Books