James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: James Joyce (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) [2016] paperback ZCHEA There's an old saying that

There's an old saying that if the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog

I pity the wolves

the tension

Paddy was at ease in any company - unfailingly charming

is both familiar and utterly devastating

James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: James Joyce (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) [2016] paperback ZCHEA There's an old saying thatThe first, shortest, and most approachable of James Joyce's novels, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man portrays the Dublin upbringing of Stephen Dedalus, from his youthful days at Clongowes Wood College to his radical questioning of all convention. In doing so, it provides an oblique self portrait of the young Joyce himself. Exuberantly inventive in style, the novel subtly and beautifully orchestrates the patterns of quotation and repetition