A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce - Folio Society - 2016
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce - Folio Society - 2016
$105.00
First published in 1916, this novel follows Stephen Dedalus from infancy in a Catholic household through Jesuit schooling and University College, Dublin. Family fortunes decline; a Christmas argument over Parnell splits the table. A retreat sermon on hell terrifies the adolescent Stephen into a phase of piety, which later collapses. At university he forms an aesthetic theory of the artist and prepares to leave Ireland. The narration moves from baby-talk to a more self-conscious style as Stephen claims a vocation. It is a novel of formation concerned with faith, family, and language rather than with external plot.
Edition details
- Publisher: Folio Society
- Edition year: 2016
- Volumes: 1
- Illustrated by: Dodie Masterman
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