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        A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man


        setting

        Dublin, Ireland

        time

        Pre-WWI

        language

        English

        region

        Western Europe

        year published

        1914

        page count

        244

        difficulty

        Extreme

        main characters

        Stephen Daedelus

        Rip's impressions

        Difficult and heady. However, one should try to read this before tackling Ulysses, and before this try reading Dubliners, Joyce's most famous short story collection.

        first line

        Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo.

        last lines

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