A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

About the book

Stephen Dedalus grows through family, religion, school, desire and artistic vocation toward a self-fashioned future.

A useful fit for readers asking about artists, identity, religion, Ireland, education and modernist coming-of-age fiction.

The style matures with Stephen, making form part of the experience of growing consciousness.

It works for readers seeking artistic ambition, intellectual adolescence and Irish literary modernism.