Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by JOYCE, James

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First edition

New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1916. Full Description: JOYCE, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1916. First edition. Octavo (7 5/16 x 4 15/16 inches; 182 x 125 mm). [4], 299, [1, blank] pp. Original blue cloth, title blind-stamped front board, gilt-lettered spine. Gilt still bright. With some very light wear to head and tail of the spine and corners. Some very minor soiling to edges of text block. Small bookseller sticker on rear pastedown. An about fine copy. "[James Joyce], novelist, born at Rathgar, a suburb of Dublin, and educated at Irish Jesuit colleges. Dissatisfied with the intellectual atmosphere of Dublin, he left Ireland in 1902 and spent most of the remainder of his life abroad, chiefly in Trieste, Zürich, and Paris, contending for many years with poverty, suffering latterly from severe eye trouble, and struggling to obtain the publication of his works." (The Oxford Companion to English Literature 421-422) "A largely autobiographical novel... it portrays the childhood, school days, adolescence, and early manhood of Stephen Dedalus, later one of the leading characters in Ulysses. Stephen's growing self-awareness as an artist forces him to reject the whole narrow world which he has been brought up... rather than following a clear narrative progression , the book revolves around experiences that are crucial to Stephen's development as an artist; at the end of each chapter Stephen makes some assertion of identity. Through his use of st

• Publisher: B. W. Huebsch
• Year: 1916
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: unknown

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