Name: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
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Author: James Joyce
ISBN: 9781774762080

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)

Type

Physical Book

Author

James Joyce

Publisher

Royal Classics

Language

English

Pages

200

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm

Weight

0.47 kg.

ISBN13

9781774762080

Synopsis "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)"

The novel 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. Stephen questions and rebels against the Catholic and Irish conventions under which he has grown, culminating in his self-exile from Ireland to Europe.A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man began life in 1904 as Stephen Hero-a projected 63-chapter autobiographical novel in a realistic style. After 25 chapters, Joyce abandoned Stephen Hero in 1907 and set to reworking its themes and protagonist into a condensed five-chapter novel, dispensing with strict realism and making extensive use of free indirect speech that allows the reader to peer into Stephen's developing consciousness. The publication of the novel and the short story collection Dubliners (1914) earned Joyce a place at the forefront of literary modernism.This case laminate collector's edition includes a Victorian inspired dust-jacket.

James Joyce

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James Joyce (Dublin, 1882-Zurich, 1941) was an Irish writer, globally recognized as one of the most important and influential of the 20th century, acclaimed for his masterpiece, Ulysses (1922), and for his controversial later novel, Finnegans Wake (1939). His series of short stories titled Dubliners (1914), as well as his semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), have also been highly valued. Joyce is a prominent representative of the avant-garde literary movement known as Anglo-Saxon modernism, alongside authors such as T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Ezra Pound, or Wallace Stevens.

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