Description: Further DetailsTitle: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManCondition: NewISBN-10: 0451530152EAN: 9780451530158ISBN: 9780451530158Publisher: Signet ClassicsFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 06/06/2006Description: A masterpiece of modern fiction, James Joyce’s semiautobiographical first novel follows Stephen Dedalus, a sensitive and creative youth who rebels against his family, his education, and his country by committing himself to the artist’s life. “I will not serve,” vows Dedalus, “that in which I no longer believe…and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can.” Likening himself to God, Dedalus notes that the artist “remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.” Joyce’s rendering of the impressions of childhood broke ground in the use of language. “He took on the almost infinite English language,” Jorge Luis Borges said once. “He wrote in a language invented by himself....Joyce brought a new music to English.” A bold literary experiment, this classic has had a huge and lasting influence on the contemporary novel. With an Introduction by Langdon HammerLanguage: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 171mmItem Length: 106mmItem Width: 18mmItem Weight: 136gAuthor: James JoyceContributor: Langdon Hammer (Introduction by)Genre: FictionTopic: Classic FictionRelease Year: 2006 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Title: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
ISBN-10: 0451530152
EAN: 9780451530158
ISBN: 9780451530158
Release Date: 06/06/2006
Release Year: 2006
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: Langdon Hammer (Introduction by)
Book Title: Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Topic: Classics, Coming of Age, Literary
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2006
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 4.8 Oz
Author: James Joyce
Item Length: 6.8 in
Item Width: 4.2 in
Format: Mass Market
