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  James Joyce - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After one of these drinking binges, he got into a fight over a misunderstanding with a man in Phoenix Park; he was picked up and dusted off by a minor acquaintance of his father's, Alfred H. Hunter, who brought him into his home to tend to his injuries.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a nearly complete rewrite of the abandoned Stephen Hero novel, the original manuscript of which Joyce partially destroyed in a fit of rage during an argument with Nora.
A künstlerroman, or story of the personal development of an artist, it is an autobiographical coming-of-age novel in which Joyce depicts a gifted young man's gradual attainment of maturity and self-consciousness; the main character, Stephen Dedalus, is based upon Joyce himself.
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 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story by James Joyce, published in 1916.
It is the story of the growth and education of Stephen Dedalus, an alter-ego for Joyce.
Since the work covers the author aging from a boy to a man the style of the work is very different in each of its five sections, with the complexity and vocabulary gradually increasing.
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 James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - OneLang.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The old man was a nimble walker in spite of his corns and often ten or twelve miles of the road were covered.
He was angry with himself for being young and the prey of restless foolish impulses, angry also with the change of fortune which was reshaping the world about him into a vision of squalor and insincerity.
The lean young man in a long overcoat, who was to give a special display of intricate club swinging, stood near watching with interest, his silver-coated clubs peeping out of his deep side-pockets.
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