• Title: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• Author: James Joyce
• Genre/Subject: Irish literature
• Publisher: Wordsworth Classics
• Publication Date: 1916
• Start date: 1/16/2021
• Finish date: 1/19/2021

Review:

Brilliant in every sense. This book sparkled from cover to cover.

If I had read this first I would have been a little less confused when reading Ulysses. Which I will read again at some point.

Ireland, politics, religion, alcohol, and the glorious countryside.

Youth, education, and the ways of young men.

A boy ensnared by the evil of religion, growing into a man casting off the shadow of it. Or as Joyce puts it, removing the moldering cerements of the grave.