A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

ONE OF THE GREATEST BOOKS EVER WRITTEN James Joyce's extraordinary novel draws heavily on the experiences of his own childhood growing up in the harsh Dublin of the turn of the Twentieth Century.. To become an artist, Stephen Dedalus must rid himself of the fears and and bigotry brought by religion and bigotry in his upbringing. James Joyce's novel is frequently quoted as one of the greatest novels of the Twentieth Century.