Joyce reworked the core themes of the novel Stephen Hero while waiting on Dubliners to be published .
While waiting on Dubliners to be published , Joyce reworked the core themes of the novel Stephen Hero he had begun in Ireland in 1904 and abandoned in 1907 into A Portrait , published in 1916 , a year after he had moved back to Zürich in the midst of the First World War.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man