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  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…

  
  Considered by many the greatest ‘bildungsroman’ in the English language. The novel portrays the early years of Stephen Dedalus who later reappeared as one of the main characters in Ulysses (1922). Each of the novel’s five sections is written in a third-person voice that reflects the age and emotional state of its protagonist, from the first childhood memories written in simple, childlike language to Stephen’s final decision to leave Dublin for Paris to devote his life to art, written in abstruse, Latin-sprinkled, stream-of-consciousness prose.

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