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100 Best Books

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

In James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Stephen Dedalus, through a series of life-altering events, realizes that he must sever all bonds of faith, family, and country to follow his true path — that of an artist. James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the semi-autobiographical account of Joyce's first 20 years and has become the quintessential "coming of age" story, as Stephen abandons all he knows to "forge" his soul's "uncreated conscience."

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