A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is 82,934 words — about 5h 32m at 250 words per minute, across 5 chapters. Measure your own speed and read it here.
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Dante had two brushes in her press. The brush with the maroon velvet back was for Michael Davitt and the brush with the green velvet back was for Parnell. Dante gave him a cachou every time he brought her a piece of tissue paper.…
Details
- AuthorJames Joyce
- SourceProject Gutenberg #4217
- Length82,934 words · 5h 32m of reading
- Chapters5
- DictionaryIncluded
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-28
Contents
5 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01Chapter I
- 02Chapter II
- 03Chapter III
- 04Chapter IV
- 05Chapter V
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