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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100679405755
ISBN-139780679405757
eBay Product ID (ePID)39403
Product Key Features
Book TitlePortrait of the Artist As a Young Man : Introduction by Richard Brown
Number of Pages368 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicComing of Age, Literary, Biographical
Publication Year1991
GenreFiction
AuthorJames Joyce
Book SeriesEveryman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight17.6 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN91-052979
Reviews"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Manis in fact the gestation of a soul." Richard Ellmann "One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction." H. G. Wells "[Mr. Joyce is] concerned at all costs to reveal the flickerings of that innermost flame which flashes its myriad message through the brain, he disregards with complete courage whatever seems to him adventitious, though it be probability or coherence or any other of the handrails to which we cling for support when we set our imaginations free." Virginia Woolf "[A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Manwill] remain a permanent part of English literature." Ezra Pound With an Introduction by Richard Brown, "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Manis in fact the gestation of a soul." Richard Ellmann "One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction." H. G. Wells "[Mr. Joyce is] concerned at all costs to reveal the flickerings of that innermost flame which flashes its myriad message through the brain, he disregards with complete courage whatever seems to him adventitious, though it be probability or coherence or any other of the handrails to which we cling for support when we set our imaginations free." Virginia Woolf "[A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man will] remain a permanent part of English literature." Ezra Pound, " A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul." Richard Ellmann "One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction." H. G. Wells "[Mr. Joyce is] concerned at all costs to reveal the flickerings of that innermost flame which flashes its myriad message through the brain, he disregards with complete courage whatever seems to him adventitious, though it be probability or coherence or any other of the handrails to which we cling for support when we set our imaginations free." Virginia Woolf "[ A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man will] remain a permanent part of English literature." Ezra Pound With an Introduction by Richard Brown From the Hardcover edition., " A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul." Richard Ellmann "One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction." H. G. Wells "[Mr. Joyce is] concerned at all costs to reveal the flickerings of that innermost flame which flashes its myriad message through the brain, he disregards with complete courage whatever seems to him adventitious, though it be probability or coherence or any other of the handrails to which we cling for support when we set our imaginations free." Virginia Woolf "[ A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man will] remain a permanent part of English literature." Ezra Pound With an Introduction by Richard Brown
Dewey Edition19
TitleLeadingA
Series Volume NumberVol. 9
Dewey Decimal823/.912
SynopsisIn his first and still most widely read novel, James Joyce makes a strange peace with the traditional narrative of a young man's self-discovery by respecting its substance while exploding its form, thereby inaugurating a literary revolution. Published in 1916 when Joyce was already at work on Ulysses , A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is exactly what its title says and much more. In an exuberantly inventive masterpiece of subjectivity, Joyce portrays his alter ego, Stephen Dedalus, growing up in Dublin and struggling through religious and sexual guilt toward an aesthetic awakening. In part a vivid picture of Joyce's own youthful evolution into one of the twentieth century's greatest writers, it is also a moment in the intellectual history of an age.