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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Paper book: €33.99

Digital: €12.99

Original publication
1916
Bilingual edition
12 June 2026
Pages
609
Difficulty
Hard
Genres
Philosophy
Moods
Understand myself, Think it through, Savour the writing
Translated from
English

Book summary

In Ireland, young Stephen Dedalus grows up in a Catholic family that is slowly growing poorer. A pupil of the Jesuits, terrified for a time by a sermon on hell, he is even invited to become a priest. But he feels another calling growing inside him: the call of art.

Joyce tells, barely disguised, the story of his own youth: how a sensitive boy becomes a writer who wants to think for himself. His hero bears the name of Daedalus, the figure from Greek mythology who made himself wings to escape.

With the translation always in front of you, you can discover this great novel by Joyce in the language you are learning.

The plot

A Dublin boy must choose his path. As a child, Stephen lives at a school run by priests. One day he is punished unfairly, and he dares to complain to the head of the school.

The world of the book

Dublin and Ireland around 1890. At this time, Ireland is part of the United Kingdom, and many Irish people want it to govern itself. In this deeply Catholic country, priests run large schools. At family meals, people…

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