This eBook is Part 1 of the Delphi Classics edition of James Joyce in 14 Parts. It features the unabridged text of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man from the bestselling edition of the author's Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of James Joyce, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical novel, first serialised in the magazine The Egoist from 1914 to 1915, and published in book format in 1916. The story describes the formative years of the life of Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter ego of Joyce and an allusion to the consummate craftsman of Greek mythology, Daedalus. The novel is written in Joyce's characteristic free indirect speech style, and has had a major influence on novelists across the world, and the novel is now ranked by some critics as being one of the greatest English-language novels of the 20th century.