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EPISODE · Mar 28, 2026 · 55 MIN

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Chapter 2 Part 1

from The James Joyce Library · host James Joyce

In which a boy absorbs the subtle rhythms of everyday life in Dublin—amid family routines, school amusements, and youthful imaginings of adventure and affection—while feeling himself both a part of and apart from the world about him. His keen observations are laced with the gentle stirrings of ambition, restlessness, and those tender moments that quietly shape a soul awakening to its own peculiar journey.

In which a boy absorbs the subtle rhythms of everyday life in Dublin—amid family routines, school amusements, and youthful imaginings of adventure and affection—while feeling himself both a part of and apart from the world about him. His keen observations are laced with the gentle stirrings of ambition, restlessness, and those tender moments that quietly shape a soul awakening to its own peculiar journey.

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