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. 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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