A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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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.…
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- AuthorJames Joyce
- SourceProject Gutenberg #4217
- Length82,796 words · 5h 31m of reading
- Chapters5
- DictionaryNot yet generated
- 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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