A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Dante had two brushes in her press. The brush with the maroon velvet back was for Michael Davitt...

He crept about from point to point on the fringe of his line, making little runs now and then. But...

It would be better to be in the study hall than out there in the cold. The sky was pale and cold...

Suck was a queer word. The fellow called Simon Moonan that name because Simon Moonan used to tie...

Stephen tried his best but the sum was too hard and he felt confused. The little silk badge with...

All the boys seemed to him very strange. They had all fathers and mothers and different clothes and...

He sat in a corner of the playroom pretending to watch a game of dominos and once or twice he was...

Sitting in the study hall he opened the lid of his desk and changed the number pasted up inside...

He read the verses backwards but then they were not poetry. Then he read the flyleaf from the...

The bell rang for night prayers and he filed out of the study hall after the others and down the...

His fingers trembled as he undressed himself in the dormitory. He told his fingers to hurry up. He...

O how cold and strange it was to think of that. All the dark was cold and strange. There were pale...

The train was full of fellows. a long long chocolate train with cream facings. The guards went to...

He crouched down between the sheets, glad of their tepid glow. He heard the fellows talk among...

The prefect was there again and it was his voice that was saying that he was to get up, that Father...

That was the infirmary. He was sick then. Had they written home to tell his mother and father. But...

How beautiful and sad that was. How beautiful the words were where they said Bury me in the old...

Why did he not tell it. His father, who kept the racehorses, must be a magistrate too like Saurins...

How pale the light was at the window. But that was nice. The fire rose and fell on the wall. It was...

All were waiting. uncle Charles, who sat far away in the shadow of the window, Dante and Mr Casey,...

Stephen looked at the plump turkey which had lain, trussed and skewered, on the kitchen table. He...

Woe be to the man by whom the scandal cometh. said Mrs Riordan. It would be better for him that a...

And I may tell you, maam, that I, if you mean me, am no renegade catholic. I am a catholic as my...

It was down in Arklow one day. We were down there at a meeting and after the meeting was over we...

But what was the name the woman had called Kitty OShea that Mr Casey would not repeat. He thought...

Didnt the bishops of Ireland betray us in the time of the union when Bishop Lanigan presented an...

The fellows all were silent. Stephen stood among them, afraid to speak, listening. A faint sickness...

Stephen looked at the faces of the fellows but they were all looking across the playground. He...

Perhaps that was why they were there because it was a place where some fellows wrote things for...

He looked at Athys rolled up sleeves and knuckly inky hands. He had rolled up his sleeves to show...

Father Arnall came in and the Latin lesson began and he remained still leaning on the desk with his...

Was that a sin for Father Arnall to be in a wax or was he allowed to get into a wax when the boys...

At your work, all of you. shouted the prefect of studies. We want no lazy idle loafers here, lazy...

Stephen drew back his maimed and quivering right arm and held out his left hand. The soutane sleeve...

It was unfair and cruel because the doctor had told him not to read without glasses and he had...

It was easy what he had to do. All he had to do was when the dinner was over and he came out in his...

The fellows at his table stood up. He stood up and passed out among them in the file. He had to...

He passed along the narrow dark corridor, passing little doors that were the doors of the rooms of...

But when he had passed the old servant on the landing and was again in the low narrow dark corridor...

The air was soft and grey and mild and evening was coming. There was the smell of evening in the...

During the first part of the summer in Blackrock uncle Charles was Stephens constant companion....

On Sundays Stephen with his father and his granduncle took their constitutional. The old man was a...

He became the ally of a boy named Aubrey Mills and founded with him a gang of adventurers in the...

He returned to Mercedes and, as he brooded upon her image, a strange unrest crept into his blood....

Theres a crack of the whip left in me yet, Stephen, old chap, said Mr Dedalus, poking at the dull...

He was sitting on the backless chair in his aunts kitchen. A lamp with a reflector hung on the...

Suddenly he became aware of something in the doorway. A skull appeared suspended in the gloom of...

In the hall the children who had stayed latest were putting on their things. the party was over....

She too wants me to catch hold of her, he thought. Thats why she came with me to the tram. I could...

But his long spell of leisure and liberty was drawing to its end. One evening his father came home...

Not he. said Mr Dedalus. But he gave me a great account of the whole affair. We were chatting, you...

The Blessed Sacrament had been removed from the tabernacle and the first benches had been driven...

Stephen at his post by the window heard the old lady and the priest laugh together and heard the...

The latter was a stranger to him but in the darkness, by the aid of the glowing cigarette tips, he...

Indeed you might, answered Heron. We saw her, Wallis, didnt we. And deucedly pretty she is too. And...

The stroke was playful but not so lightly given as the first one had been. Stephen felt the skin...

The essay was for him the chief labour of his week and every Tuesday, as he marched from home to...

As soon as the boys had turned into Clonliffe Road together they began to speak about books and...

He remained standing with his two companions at the end of the shed listening idly to their talk or...

As he watched this swaying form and tried to read for himself the legend of the priests mocking...

He left the stage quickly and rid himself of his mummery and passed out through the chapel into the...

Stephen was once again seated beside his father in the corner of a railway carriage at Kingsbridge....

They drove in a jingle across Cork while it was still early morning and Stephen finished his sleep...

Mr Dedalus had ordered drisheens for breakfast and during the meal he cross examined the waiter for...

They passed into the anatomy theatre where Mr Dedalus, the porter aiding him, searched the desks...

The leaves of the trees along the Mardyke were astir and whispering in the sunlight. A team of...

He heard the sob passing loudly down his fathers throat and opened his eyes with a nervous impulse....

On the evening of the day on which the property was sold Stephen followed his father meekly about...

Were as old as we feel, Johnny, said Mr Dedalus. And just finish what you have there and well have...

Stephens mother and his brother and one of his cousins waited at the corner of quiet Foster Place...

For a swift season of merrymaking the money of his prizes ran through Stephens fingers. Great...

He saw clearly, too, his own futile isolation. He had not gone one step nearer the lives he had...

Such moments passed and the wasting fires of lust sprang up again. The verses passed from his lips...

Her room was warm and lightsome. A huge doll sat with her legs apart in the copious easychair...

With a sudden movement she bowed his head and joined her lips to his and he read the meaning of her...

The equation on the page of his scribbler began to spread out a widening tail, eyed and starred...

The blundering answer stirred the embers of his contempt of his fellows. Towards others he felt...

His sin, which had covered him from the sight of God, had led him nearer to the refuge of sinners....

As he sat in his bench gazing calmly at the rectors shrewd harsh face his mind wound itself in and...

You are all familiar with the story of the life of saint Francis Xavier, I suppose, the patron of...

Stephen sat in the front bench of the chapel. Father Arnall sat at a table to the left of the...

I will ask you, therefore, my dear boys, to put away from your minds during these few days all...

As he walked home with silent companions a thick fog seemed to compass his mind. He waited in...

Nor was that all. Gods justice had still to be vindicated before men. after the particular there...

As he crossed the square, walking homeward, the light laughter of a girl reached his burning ear....

Take hands, Stephen and Emma. It is a beautiful evening now in heaven. You have erred but you are...

Hell has enlarged its soul and opened its mouth without any limits words taken, my dear little...

Alas, my dear little boys, they too fell. The devil, once a shining angel, a son of the morning,...

Did they listen. Yes, they listened but would not hear. He was seized and bound like a common...

They lie in exterior darkness. For, remember, the fire of hell gives forth no light. As, at the...

Our earthly fire again, no matter how fierce or widespread it may be, is always of a limited...

Last of all consider the frightful torment to those damned souls, tempters and tempted alike, of...

He could not grip the floor with his feet and sat heavily at his desk, opening one of his books at...

The English lesson began with the hearing of the history. Royal persons, favourites, intriguers,...

The thought slid like a cold shining rapier into his tender flesh. confession. But not there in the...

This morning we endeavoured, in our reflection upon hell, to make what our holy founder calls in...

The second pain which will afflict the souls of the damned in hell is the pain of conscience. Just...

Opposed to this pain of extension and yet coexistent with it we have the pain of intensity. Hell is...

Yes, a just God. Men, reasoning always as men, are astonished that God should mete out an...

I pray to God that my poor words may have availed today to confirm in holiness those who are in a...

O my God. O my God. I am heartily sorry I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee for having...

We knew perfectly well of course that though it was bound to come to the light he would find...

That was the work of devils, to scatter his thoughts and overcloud his conscience, assailing him at...

Creatures were in the field; one, three, six. creatures were moving in the field, hither and...

When the fit had spent itself he walked weakly to the window and, lifting the sash, sat in a corner...

The ache of conscience ceased and he walked onward swiftly through the dark streets. There were so...

He walked on and on through ill lit streets, fearing to stand still for a moment lest it might seem...

Consciousness of place came ebbing back to him slowly over a vast tract of time unlit, unfelt,...

A tall figure came down the aisle and the penitents stirred; and at the last moment, glancing up...

The slide was shot back. A penitent emerged from the farther side of the box. The near slide was...

At last it had come. He knelt in the silent gloom and raised his eyes to the white crucifix...

You are very young, my child, he said, and let me implore of you to give up that sin. It is a...

He sat by the fire in the kitchen, not daring to speak for happiness. Till that moment he had not...

Sunday was dedicated to the mystery of the Holy Trinity, Monday to the Holy Ghost, Tuesday to the...

Every part of his day, divided by what he regarded now as the duties of his station in life,...

The imagery through which the nature and kinship of the Three Persons of the Trinity were darkly...

But he had been forewarned of the dangers of spiritual exaltation and did not allow himself to...

When he had eluded the flood of temptation many times in this way he grew troubled and wondered...

Of course it is, of course. Just imagine when I was in Belgium I used to see them out cycling in...

But the phrase on the priests lips was disingenuous for he knew that a priest should not speak...

In a college like this, he said at length, there is one boy or perhaps two or three boys whom God...

He listened in reverent silence now to the priests appeal and through the words he heard even more...

As he descended the steps the impression which effaced his troubled selfcommunion was that of a...

He was passing at that moment before the jesuit house in Gardiner Street, and wondered vaguely...

He pushed open the latchless door of the porch and passed through the naked hallway into the...

The voice of his youngest brother from the farther side of the fireplace began to sing the air Oft...

From the door of Byrons public house to the gate of Clontarf Chapel, from the gate of Clontarf...

The pride of that dim image brought back to his mind the dignity of the office he had refused. All...

The phrase and the day and the scene harmonised in a chord. Words. Was it their colours. He allowed...

Disheartened, he raised his eyes towards the slowdrifting clouds, dappled and seaborne. They were...

Their banter was not new to him and now it flattered his mild proud sovereignty. Now, as never...

What were they now but cerements shaken from the body of death the fear he had walked in night and...

He looked northward towards Howth. The sea had fallen below the line of seawrack on the shallow...

Where was his boyhood now. Where was the soul that had hung back from her destiny, to brood alone...

She was alone and still, gazing out to sea; and when she felt his presence and the worship of his...

There was no human figure near him nor any sound borne to him over the air. But the tide was near...

He drained his third cup of watery tea to the dregs and set to chewing the crusts of fried bread...

The rainladen trees of the avenue evoked in him, as always, memories of the girls and women in the...

Near the hoardings on the canal he met the consumptive man with the dolls face and the brimless hat...

The word now shone in his brain, clearer and brighter than any ivory sawn from the mottled tusks of...

He looked at it without anger; for, though sloth of the body and of the soul crept over it like...

Coupling this ambition with the young mans humour Stephen had often called him one of the tame...

I was away all that day from my own place over in Buttevant I dont know if you know where that is...

The blue flowers which she lifted towards him and her young blue eyes seemed to him at that instant...

It was too late to go upstairs to the French class. He crossed the hall and took the corridor to...

In so far as it is apprehended by the sight, which I suppose means here esthetic intellection, it...

I need them only for my own use and guidance until I have done something for myself by their light....

One difficulty, said Stephen, in esthetic discussion is to know whether words are being used...

The little word seemed to have turned a rapier point of his sensitiveness against this courteous...

In pursuing these speculations, said the dean conclusively, there is, however, the danger of...