A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Paperback by James Joyce

Product Details

• Publisher: Penguin Classic (2026-07-28)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 368 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780241405895
• Item Weight: 368.55 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

‘There is nothing more vivid or beautiful in all Joyce’s writings. It has the searing clarity of truth’ Sunday Times

The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus’s Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is also an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce and a universal testament to the artist’s ‘eternal imagination’.

‘Joyce’s depiction of the early Dublin life of Stephen Dedalus towers over modern literature, providing a stylistic blueprint and creative touchstone for artists young and old’ Guardian

‘James Joyce was and remains almost unique among novelists in that he published nothing but masterpieces’ The Times Literary Supplement

With a new introduction by Joseph Brooker and notes by Steven Morrison.

About the Author

James Joyce was born in Dublin on 2 February 1882, the eldest of ten children in a family which, after brief prosperity, collapsed into poverty. He was nonetheless educated at the best Jesuit schools and then at University College, Dublin, and displayed considerable academic and literary ability. Although he spent most of his adult life outside Ireland, Joyce's psychological and fictional universe is firmly rooted in his native Dublin, the city which provides the settings and much of the subject matter for all of his fiction. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses (1922) and its controversial successor Finnegans Wake (1939), as well as the short story collection Dubliners (1914) and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). James Joyce died in Zürich, on 13 January 1941.