A Portrait of the artist as a young man

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is James Joyce's first novel, first published in book form in 1916. The novel is a semi-autobiographical story of a young Irish boy who struggles with family, country, and religion to become an artist and a man. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man traces the early life of Stephen Dedalus and his inner struggle with the oppression of Irish society and…