James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: James Joyce (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) [2016] paperback ZCHEA is both familiar and utterly

is both familiar and utterly devastating

for everyone

I pity the wolves

Paddy was at ease in any company - unfailingly charming

yet rarely receives the critical attention it deserves

James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: James Joyce (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) [2016] paperback ZCHEA is both familiar and utterlyThe first, shortest, and most approachable of James Joyce's novels, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man portrays the Dublin upbringing of Stephen Dedalus, from his youthful days at Clongowes Wood College to his radical questioning of all convention. In doing so, it provides an oblique self portrait of the young Joyce himself. Exuberantly inventive in style, the novel subtly and beautifully orchestrates the patterns of quotation and repetition