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dec 29 Learn More A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Published
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James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was published on this day in 1916. Joyce's debut novel is a Künstlerroman. It means "artist's novel" in German, and is the story of a young artist's coming of age. You know, kind of like Dawson's Creek, but a book. Yeah, we said kind of.
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