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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

By James Joyce
Introduction by Langdon Hammer

By James Joyce
Introduction by Langdon Hammer

By James Joyce
Introduction by Langdon Hammer

By James Joyce
Introduction by Langdon Hammer

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    About A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

    A masterpiece of modern fiction, James Joyce’s semiautobiographical first novel follows Stephen Dedalus, a sensitive and creative youth who rebels against his family, his education, and his country by committing himself to the artist’s life.

    “I will not serve,” vows Dedalus, “that in which I no longer believe…and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can.” Likening himself to God, Dedalus notes that the artist “remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.” Joyce’s rendering of the impressions of childhood broke ground in the use of language. “He took on the almost infinite English language,” Jorge Luis Borges said once. “He wrote in a language invented by himself….Joyce brought a new music to English.” A bold literary experiment, this classic has had a huge and lasting influence on the contemporary novel.
     
    With an Introduction by Langdon Hammer

    About A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

    A masterpiece of modern fiction, James Joyce’s semiautobiographical first novel follows Stephen Dedalus, a sensitive and creative youth who rebels against his family, his education, and his country by committing himself to the artist’s life.

    “I will not serve,” vows Dedalus, “that in which I no longer believe…and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can.” Likening himself to God, Dedalus notes that the artist “remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.” Joyce’s rendering of the impressions of childhood broke ground in the use of language. “He took on the almost infinite English language,” Jorge Luis Borges said once. “He wrote in a language invented by himself….Joyce brought a new music to English.” A bold literary experiment, this classic has had a huge and lasting influence on the contemporary novel.
     
    With an Introduction by Langdon Hammer

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    About James Joyce

    James Joyce, the twentieth century’s most influential novelist, was born in Dublin on February 2, 1882. The oldest of ten children, he grew up in a family that went from prosperity to penury because of his father’s wastrel behavior. After… More about James Joyce

    About James Joyce

    James Joyce, the twentieth century’s most influential novelist, was born in Dublin on February 2, 1882. The oldest of ten children, he grew up in a family that went from prosperity to penury because of his father’s wastrel behavior. After… More about James Joyce

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    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Mass Market Paperback | $5.95
    Published by Signet
    Jun 06, 2006 | 288 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-3/4 | ISBN 9780451530158

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $1.99
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    Jun 06, 2006 | 288 Pages | ISBN 9781101075777

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    “Joyce’s work is not about the thing—it is the thing itself.”—Samuel Beckett

    “Admirable.”—Jorge Luis Borges

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