Young men -- Fiction books

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.

Nicholas Nickleby

Charles Dickens

The novel opens amid a chaotic coach ride, where the heavy‑handed guard and the impatient coachman jostle a…

Tristram of Blent: An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House

Anthony Hope

The work is a Victorian‑era novel that treats the tangled affairs of inheritance, family duty and youthful…

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street

Herman Melville

The work is a mid‑nineteenth‑century novella that frames itself as a memoir of a modest New York…

Sentimental Education; Or, The History of a Young Man. Volume 2

Gustave Flaubert

The volume continues Gustave Flaubert’s sprawling, episodic portrait of a restless young man caught in the…

The Young Duke

Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

The Young Duke is a sprawling work of political and social fiction that follows the early life of George…

The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man

George Randolph Chester

The work is a light‑hearted, first‑person narrative that follows the newly‑inherited heir Bobby Burnit as he…

The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy

William Makepeace Thackeray

The second volume of William Makepeace Thackeray’s The History of Pendennis continues the comic,…

This Side of Paradise

F. Scott Fitzgerald

This novel is a coming‑of‑age story that follows Amory Blaine, the son of a wealthy Chicago family, from his…

The Beautiful and Damned

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The novel opens in 1913 with the introspective young heir Anthony Patch, a twenty‑five‑year‑old who balances…

Martin Eden

Jack London

Martin Eden is an autobiographical bildungsroman that follows a rough‑shod young sailor thrust into the…

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket Comprising the details of a mutiny and atrocious butchery on board the American brig Grampus, on her way to the South Seas, in the month of June, 1827.

Edgar Allan Poe

The work is a first‑person sea narrative that blends travelogue, personal confession, and the promise of a…

Martin Chuzzlewit

Charles Dickens

Martin Chuzzlewit is a sprawling satire that targets the pretensions of English society, the cruelty of…

Sons and Lovers

D. H. Lawrence

The novel is an autobiographical work of domestic fiction set in a nineteenth‑century English mining…

Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1

Henry Fielding

The work is Henry Fielding’s first novel, a comic and affectionate bildungsroman that follows the adventures…

The Ambassadors

Henry James

The work is a psychological novel that first appeared in twelve installments of The North American Review in…

Redburn. His First Voyage Being the Sailor Boy Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-Of-A-Gentleman in the Merchant Navy

Herman Melville

The work is an autobiographical‑fictional sea story that follows a young American boy’s growing obsession…

Caleb Williams; Or, Things as They Are

William Godwin

The work is a didactic novel that doubles as a bildungsroman, set in England and populated with murderers,…

Sentimental Education; Or, The History of a Young Man. Volume 1

Gustave Flaubert

The novel opens aboard a bustling steamboat gliding down the Seine, where a crowd of passengers, artisans,…