A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man by James Joyce [U.K. HARDCOVER COLLECTOR'S EDITION] 1991 • Everyman's Library
A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man by James Joyce
U.K. HARDCOVER COLLECTOR'S EDITION [1992] EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY
Rare UK deluxe edition hardcover w/ dust jacket. Features sewn-in silken bookmark and gilded navy cloth boards.
Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition. Light wear; dust jacket housed in a new archival quality jacket protector.
Book reads like new; slight crook to rear boards.
The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is also an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce and a universal testament to the artist's 'eternal imagination'. Both an insight into Joyce's life and childhood, and a unique work of modernist fiction, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a novel of sexual awakening, religious rebellion and the essential search for voice and meaning that every nascent artist must face in order to blossom fully into themselves.