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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: €26.99

Digital: €6.99

Original publication
1916
Monolingual
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

都柏林少年的人生抉擇。史蒂芬從小住在一所由神父主辦的寄宿學校。一天,他被冤枉受罰,便鼓起勇氣去找校長申訴。

The world of the book

1890年前後的都柏林與愛爾蘭。當時,愛爾蘭是英國(聯合王國)的一部分,許多愛爾蘭人希望自治。在這個篤信天主教的國家,神父們主辦著大型學校。家裡吃飯時,人們常為宗教和政治爭吵。史蒂芬正是在這樣的環境中學會獨立思考。

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