{"product_id":"a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-man-9780553214048","title":"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man","description":"Perhaps Joyce's most personal work, \u003ci\u003eA Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man\u003c\/i\u003e depicts the intellectual awakening of one of literature's most memorable young heroes, Stephen Dedalus. Through a series of brilliant epiphanies that parallel the development of his own aesthetic consciousness, Joyce evokes Stephen's youth, from his impressionable years as the youngest student at the Clongowed Wood school to the deep religious conflict he experiences at a day school in Dublin, and finally to his college studies where he challenges the conventions of his upbringing and his understanding of faith and intellectual freedom. James Joyce's highly autobiographical novel was first published in the United States in 1916 to immediate acclaim. Ezra Pound accurately predicted that Joyce's book would \"remain a permanent part of English literature,\" while H.G. Wells dubbed it \"by far the most important living and convincing picture that exists of an Irish Catholic upbringing.\" A remarkably rich study of a developing young mind, \u003ci\u003eA Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man\u003c\/i\u003e made an indelible mark on literature and confirmed Joyce's reputation as one of the world's greatest and lasting writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames Joyce, the twentieth century's most influential novelist, was born in Dublin on February 2, 1882. The oldest of ten children, he grew up in a family that went from prosperity to penury because of his father's wastrel behavior. After receiving a rigorous Jesuit education, twenty-year-old Joyce renounced his Catholicism and left Dublin in 1902 to spend most of his life as a writer in exile in Paris, Trieste, Rome, and Zurich. On one trip back to Ireland, he fell in love with the now famous Nora Barnacle on June 16, the day he later chose as \"Bloomsday\" in his novel \u003ci\u003eUlysses. \u003c\/i\u003eNara was an uneducated Galway girl who became his lifelong companion an the mother of his two children. In debt and drinking heavily, Joyce lived for thirty-six years on the Continent, supporting himself first by teaching jobs, then trough the patronage of Mrs. Harold McCormick (Edith Rockerfeller) and the English feminist and editor Harriet Shaw Weaver. His writings include \u003ci\u003eChamber music \u003c\/i\u003e(1907), \u003ci\u003eDubliners \u003c\/i\u003e(1914), \u003ci\u003eA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man \u003c\/i\u003e(1916), \u003ci\u003eExiles \u003c\/i\u003e(1918), \u003ci\u003eUlysses \u003c\/i\u003e(1922), \u003ci\u003ePoems Penyeach \u003c\/i\u003e(1927), \u003ci\u003eFinnegans Wake \u003c\/i\u003e(1939), and an early draft of \u003ci\u003eA Portrait of a Young Man, Stephan Hero \u003c\/i\u003e(1944). \u003ci\u003eUlysses \u003c\/i\u003erequired seven years to complete, and his masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eFinnegans Wake, \u003c\/i\u003etook seventeen. Both works revolutionized the form, structure, and content of the novel. Joyce died in Zurich in 1941.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bantam Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50912509362450,"sku":"9780553214048","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_24db1ee3-83e8-4839-851f-d10deabcbacb.jpg?v=1753185464","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-man-9780553214048","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}