by James Joyce (Author)
Paperback: 254 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0811200745
Stephen Hero is an early version of Joyce's A Portrait of the artist as a Young Man.
It was originally rejected on grounds of indecency―so the story goes― by twenty publishers, whereupon Joyce threw the manuscript in the fire, but Mrs. Joyce rescued several unburnt portions.
Although Joyce later entirely rewrote his novel of a young Irishman's rebellion aga....
