This Norton Critical Edition includes:
Hans Walter Gablers acclaimed text of Joyces 1916 coming-of-age novel, accompanied by Gablers introduction and textual notes.
Preface and revised and expanded explanatory annotations by John Paul Riquelme.
Other writings by James Joyce closely related to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, new to the Second Edition.
Nine illustrations
Backgrounds and Contexts including a wealth of materials, topically organised: Political Nationalism: Irish History, 17981916, The Irish Literary and Cultural Revival, Religion and Aesthetic Backgrounds.
Twelve major critical assessments, seven of them new to the Second Edition.
A chronology and a selected bibliography.
About the Series
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