A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce
Contents
| [Chapter I] |
| [Chapter II] |
| [Chapter III] |
| [Chapter IV] |
| [Chapter V] |
“Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes.”
Ovid, Metamorphoses, VIII., 18.
Chapter I
Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo....
His father told him that story: his father looked at him through a glass: he had a hairy face.
He was baby tuckoo. The moocow came down the road where Betty Byrne lived: she sold lemon platt.