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Wikipedia article
'Stephen Hero' is a posthumously published autobiographical novel by Irish author James Joyce. Its published form reflects only a portion of an original manuscript, part of which was lost. Many of its ideas were used in composing 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'.
Background
Work on 'Stephen Hero' probably began in Dublin in 1903.Attridge, D. (2012). Joyce: The modernist novel's revolution in matter and manner. In R. Caserio & C. Hawes (Eds.), The Cambridge History of the English Novel (pp. 581-595). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CHOL9780521194952.038 According to Derek Attridge, it was to be "a thinly disguised autobiography, stylistically undistinguished and immensely long."
Joyce abandoned the work in Trieste in 1905.
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*Walbank, Alan (1965). "Stephen Hero's Bookshops." 'The Book Collector' 14 no 2 (summer): 194-199.
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