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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1916
Pages
Pages 300

An Irish boy grows up under priests, politics and family ruin, and step by step shakes off every net of nation, language and church until he is free to leave and become a writer.

To forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce

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