A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by James Joyce · language: en

Vocabulary level: Upper-intermediate · Flesch–Kincaid grade 7 · 4,374 sentences

Vocabulary level is estimated from word frequency, not an official CEFR classification.

Subjects: Artists — Fiction · Autobiographical fiction · Bildungsromans · Dublin (Ireland) — Fiction

Words worth knowing: hash · foray · censer · wainscot · milkman · armpit · virginal · impalpable

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce Contents “Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes.” Ovid, Metamorphoses, VIII., 188.

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.... His father told him that story: his father looked at him through a glass: he had a hairy face.

The moocow came down the road where Betty Byrne lived: she sold lemon platt.

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