"Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race."
#OTD in 1916.
James Joyce's semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is first published complete in book form, in New York by B. W. Huebsch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Portrait_of_the_Artist_as_a_Young_Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/4217