{"title":"James Joyce","description":"\u003cp\u003eEncounter one of the most revolutionary and challenging minds in the history of literature with \u003cstrong\u003eJames Joyce\u003c\/strong\u003e (1882–1941), the Irish author whose work permanently transformed the possibilities of the novel and the English language itself. Joyce's writing captures the full texture of human consciousness — its digressions, its poetry, its vulgarity, its moments of sudden, piercing beauty — with an ambition and technical mastery that has never been surpassed. His essential works include \u003cem\u003eDubliners\u003c\/em\u003e, a collection of short stories of crystalline perfection; \u003cem\u003eA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man\u003c\/em\u003e, a lyrical coming-of-age novel; and \u003cem\u003eUlysses\u003c\/em\u003e, widely regarded as the greatest novel of the twentieth century, following Leopold Bloom through a single day in Dublin on 16 June 1904. 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This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Seamus Deane.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 fully come into themselves.James Joyce (1882-1941), the eldest of ten children, was born in Dublin, but exiled himself to Paris at twenty as a rebellion against his upbringing. He only returned to Ireland briefly from the continent but Dublin was at heart of his greatest works, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. 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