A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce: The Easton Press, 1977

Description: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce: The Easton Press, 1977. Book is in excellent condition, like new. Bound in genuine leather, accented in 22kt gold, rinted on archival paper with gilded edges, the end sheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker, Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints to ensure the highest quality binding. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines. First Easton Press Edition. Collector's Edition. Dimensions: 6- (7/8) x 1- (3/8) x 10 inches.Pages: 254.Weight: 2.3 lbs. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the debut novel of Irish writer James Joyce, published in 1916. A Künstlerroman written in a modernist style, it traces the religious and intellectual awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, Joyce's fictional alter ego, whose surname alludes to Daedalus, Greek mythology's consummate craftsman. Stephen questions and rebels against the Catholic and Irish conventions under which he has grown, culminating in his self-exile from Ireland to Europe. The work uses techniques that Joyce developed more fully in Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939). A Portrait began life in 1904 as Stephen Hero—a projected 63-chapter autobiographical novel in a realistic style. After 25 chapters, Joyce abandoned Stephen Hero in 1907 and set to reworking its themes and protagonist into a condensed five-chapter novel, dispensing with strict realism and making extensive use of free indirect speech that allows the reader to peer into Stephen's developing consciousness. American modernist poet Ezra Pound had the novel serialized in the English literary magazine The Egoist in 1914 and 1915 and published as a book in 1916 by B. W. Huebsch of New York. The publication of A Portrait and the short story collection Dubliners (1914) earned Joyce a place at the forefront of literary modernism.

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