This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce, first serialized in The Egoist from 1914 to 1915 and published in book form in 1916. It depicts the formative years in the life of Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter ego of Joyce and a pointed allusion to the consummate craftsman of Greek mythology, Daedalus.
A Portrait is a key example of the Künstlerroman (an artist's bildungsroman) in English literature. Joyce's novel traces… (more)
Language: English
Published in: 1916
Word count: 84,810 words (≈ about 6 hours)
Source: Gutenberg
Copyright: This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA.
This list is based on The Great Books of the Western World, edited by Robert Hutchins and Mortimer Adler.From Wikipedia:It came about as the result...
A list of books that are commonly found on reading lists for US high school English classes.
The Bildungsroman is a genre of the novel which focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood. Change is...
2 books