His first long work of fiction, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1916, is clearly and autobiography of Joyce's life. ... Stephen Hero, which, although not published until 1944, was an early version of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. ... As a matter of fact, two of his writings were well known to be about his own life, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and The Dubliners. Both of those piece of work involved his rough childhood, and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was even thought to be autobiographical. ... Joyce also captured something different when ...

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