{"product_id":"a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-man-signet-classics","title":"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Signet Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joyce, James\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e Signet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eColor:\u003c\/b\u003e Black\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e mass_market\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 01-06-2006\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Number:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780451530158\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e Product Description\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nA masterpiece of modern fiction, James Joyce’s semiautobiographical first novel follows Stephen Dedalus, a sensitive and creative youth who rebels against his family, his education, and his country by committing himself to the artist’s life. \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n“I will not serve,” vows Dedalus, “that in which I no longer believe…and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can.” Likening himself to God, Dedalus notes that the artist “remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.” Joyce’s rendering of the impressions of childhood broke ground in the use of language. “He took on the almost infinite English language,” Jorge Luis Borges said once. “He wrote in a language invented by himself....Joyce brought a new music to English.” A bold literary experiment, this classic has had a huge and lasting influence on the contemporary novel.\u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWith an Introduction by Langdon Hammer\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nReview\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n“Joyce’s work is not about the thing—it is the thing itself.”—Samuel Beckett\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n“Admirable.”—Jorge Luis Borges\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAbout the Author\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nBorn in Dublin, Ireland,\u003cbr\u003e\nJames Joyce (1882–1941) studied philosophy and languages at the Dublin College of the Royal University. He left Ireland in 1902 and went to Paris, but upon learning that his mother was dying, he returned to Dublin in 1903. After his mother’s death, Joyce taught school in Dublin and met Nora Barnacle, the woman who would be his lifelong companion. Joyce and Nora left Ireland in 1904 and traveled to Trieste, where Joyce taught languages at the Berlitz School. An attack of rheumatic fever in 1907 caused his vision to worsen throughout his life. Apart from one trip back to Dublin in 1912, Joyce spent the rest of his life on the Continent. Wealthy patrons subsidized his writing, and Joyce became the most influential novelist of the twentieth century. His writings include\u003cbr\u003e\nChamber Music (1907),\u003cbr\u003e\nDubliners (1914),\u003cbr\u003e\nA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916),\u003cbr\u003e\nExiles (1918),\u003cbr\u003e\nUlysses (1922),\u003cbr\u003e\nPomes Penyeach (1927), and\u003cbr\u003e\nFinnegans Wake (1939).\u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nLangdon Hammer, author of\u003cbr\u003e\nHart Crane and Allen Tate: Janus-Faced Modernism and numerous essays on modern and contemporary literature, is the chairman of the English Department at Yale University.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nExcerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nChapter One\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\"Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes.\"\u003cbr\u003e\novid, metamorphoses, viii., 18.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nONCE UPON a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo. . . .\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nHis father told him that story: his father looked at him through a glass: he had a hairy face.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nHe was baby tuckoo. The moocow came down the road where Betty Byrne lived: she sold lemon platt.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nO, the wild rose blossoms\u003cbr\u003e\nOn the little green place.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nHe sang that song. That was his song.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nO, the green wothe botheth.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWhen you wet the bed, first it is warm then it gets cold. His mother put on the oilsheet. That had the queer smell.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nHis mother had a nicer smell than his father. She played on the piano the sailor's hornpipe for him to dance. He danced:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n  Tralala lala,\u003cbr\u003e\nTralala tralaladdy,\u003cbr\u003e\n  Tralala lala,\u003cbr\u003e\n  Tralala lala.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nUncle Charles and Dante clapped. They were older than his father and mother but Uncle Charles was older than Dante.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nDante had two brushes in her press. The brush with the maroon velvet back was for Michael Davitt and the brush with the green velvet back was for Parnell. 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