Jack Carstairs of the power house: A tale of some very young men and a very young industry

History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Henry Fielding

The work is a comic, eighteenth‑century novel that treats the growth of a young man from foundling to adult…

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

The novel opens with a self‑portrait of its orphaned narrator, Pip, whose very name is a contraction of the…

Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts: Novelle

Eichendorff, Joseph, Freiherr von

Die Novelle „Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts“ von Joseph von Eichendorff ist ein jugendlicher Bildungsroman,…

David Copperfield

Charles Dickens

The novel is an autobiographical‑style bildungsroman that begins with a self‑conscious narrator announcing…

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce

The novel is an autobiographical fiction that follows the early life of Stephen Dedalus, a young Dublin boy…

The Martian: A Novel

George Du Maurier

The work is a lively, first‑person tale that blends youthful wanderings with a hint of the extraordinary.