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Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce

A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man is one of the most well-known works by James Joyce. The book is largely autobiographical, and was first published in 1916. Read more about A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man.
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The Portrait of the Artist of as a Young Man--along with Ulysses and Finnigans Wake--is a part of the series of masterpieces of modernist prose by one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, James Joyce.
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There are two kinds of classic books. The former consist of all the stories that, once heard, seem to demand a telling: the war of Satan against Heaven, the journeys of a man convinced of his status as a knight, the struggle for redemption faced by a man who sells his soul to the devil.

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