Our edition of the 1916 text of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is available to download as an audiobook, e-book, PDF or plain text file.
Please feel free to download any of these versions for your own private use. Our version of the text of this novel is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence.
For any additional permissions, please contact us.
The Audiobook
The complete audiobook, featuring Irish actors Barry McGovern and Sam McGovern, can be downloaded from Soundcloud here and from iTunes here.
Read more about the creation of the audiobook here.
The E-Book
Our edition of Joyce’s novel is a facsimile of the text’s first appearance as a single volume, published in New York on December 29th, 1916. You can download this version of the text for your e-reader in the following formats:
Kindle (.mobi) Please note that due to restrictions on free content in the Amazon store, the Kindle version must currently be downloaded from this page. It will appear automatically in Kindle apps if ‘All Content’ is selected and can be imported to Kindle devices.
Epub reader (.epub)
PDF
Plain Text
The plain vanilla text of our edition of Portrait is available to download below, for research and all other purposes.
Complete 1916 text
Complete 1916 text, including preface to the 2016 Digital Multimedia edition