A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Ranked by Modern Library as the third greatest English-Language novel of the 20th Century, “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” is a classic masterpiece by James Joyce, written in the free indirect speech style that he would come to perfect. This novel serves as a semi-autobiographical story of the coming of age of a youth of unusual intelligence and sensitivity and his upbringing in Ireland and the Catholic Church, as well as the emergence of politics and morality.