A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Author:James Hoyce Like some of the best novels in the world, it is a story of an education: it is by far the most living and convincing picture that exists of an Irish Catholic upbringing. It is a mosaic of jagged fragments that does altogether render with extreme completeness the growth of a rather secretive, imaginative boy in Dublin. One believes in Stephen De... more »dalus as one believes in few characters in fiction.« less