THE ATHENAEUMA Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManJames Joyce
Modern
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textStephen Dedalus grows up in Catholic Ireland, and the language of the book grows up with him, from nursery talk to the arguments of a proud young aesthete. It ends with Stephen leaving to forge “the uncreated conscience of my race”. The sermon on hell in the middle is famously terrifying.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 5 hr 40 min
- Where to find it
- On the Modern shelves
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #4217. In the public domain in the United States.