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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Written by James Joyce and published in 1916, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was named the number three book on the Modern Library’s list of best novels of the 20th century – with Joyce’s later masterpiece, Ulysses, clocking in at number one. Yet Portrait is significant in its own right, as a prototype for the writer’s mature style, the stream of consciousness prose which is as mesmerizing as it is challenging. Following the physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual growth of Stephen Dedalus, a quasi-autobiographical figure for the author himself, Portrait is by turns provocative, amusing and profound.