Books tagged with Coming of Age[54 found]
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
by Charles Dickens
Categories: Fiction » Coming of Age
A vibrant and dramatic story of a young man striving to protect his family and find his place in the world. Facing cruelty, deceit, and adventure, he navigates challenges with courage, wit, and compassion, revealing the resilience and heart needed to overcome adversity.
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Redburn: His First Voyage
by Herman Melville
Categories: Fiction » Coming of Age
A naive boy signs onto a merchant ship and is pitched into a harsh apprenticeship—bullying mates, brutal chores, and the bitter cold Atlantic. In Liverpool’s alleys he confronts poverty and pride, learning how class and cruelty shadow every harbor. Amid storms, small kindnesses, and hard lessons, he sheds illusions and discovers what courage and conscience truly cost at sea.
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David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
Categories: Fiction » Coming of Age
A young orphan rises from a harsh childhood in Victorian England, facing cruel stepfathers, grueling workhouses, and fleeting joys. Through friendships, love, and betrayal, his resilient spirit seeks a place in a turbulent world. This sweeping saga of growth and discovery weaves humor, heartbreak, and hope, capturing the enduring quest for identity and belonging.
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Villette
by Charlotte Brontë
Categories: Fiction » Coming of Age
An observant, self-contained woman flees a shadowed past to teach at a girls’ school in a foreign city. Amid strict classrooms, midnight visions, and shifting alliances, she wrestles with loneliness, faith, and forbidden love, slowly discovering her own fierce capacity for desire, resilience, and hope, even when happiness seems forever out of reach.
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The Professor
by Charlotte Brontë
Categories: Fiction » Coming of Age
An orphaned clerk with quiet pride leaves England for a Brussels school, where he teaches unruly boys by day and wrestles loneliness by night. A cool beauty toys with his hopes a penniless teacher with fierce integrity challenges his heart. Amid exams, jealousies, and Calvinist shadows, he must choose ambition or love—and find a self that can stand alone.
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Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
Categories: Fiction » Coming of Age
Born in a workhouse and apprenticed to cruelty, a lonely orphan flees to London and falls into the clutches of a gang of pickpockets led by a charming villain. As he struggles to keep his innocence amid crime, betrayal, and unexpected kindness, his true origins emerge, drawing him toward peril—and a chance at belonging. Along the way, unlikely allies risk everything to save him.
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Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
Categories: Fiction » Coming of Age
A lively young woman with an overactive imagination enters the world of high society, where romance and intrigue seem to leap from the pages of her beloved gothic novels. Amid misunderstandings and unexpected affection, she learns to distinguish fantasy from truth and finds love grounded in sincerity and sense.
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Jacob's Room
by Virginia Woolf
Categories: Fiction » Coming of Age
A modernist exploration of a young man’s life unfolds through fragmented impressions, memories, and encounters. Beyond a linear narrative, it examines identity, relationships, and the fleeting nature of existence, offering a profound meditation on human experience and perception.
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The Voyage Out
by Virginia Woolf
Categories: Fiction » Coming of Age
A shy young woman leaves England on a ship bound for South America, hoping travel will crack open a life she has never truly lived. Amid shipboard flirtations, colonial drawing rooms and fierce tropical landscapes, she tests love, faith and independence, only to find that freedom demands a price no one can foresee, or fully understand.
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This Side of Paradise
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Categories: Fiction » Coming of Age
A handsome, restless Midwestern boy wins his way into elite schools, smoky clubs, and doomed romances, always chasing beauty, status, and a self he can admire. From campus pranks to postwar disillusion and flapper glitter, his friendships and affairs crumble as he discovers charm alone can’t protect a hollow soul from growing up.
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Twice-Told Tales
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Categories: Fiction » Coming of Age
Across New England streets, gardens, graveyards and midnight chambers, brief tales unfold of secret sins, haunted legacies, fatal pride and moments of unexpected grace. Blending folklore, Puritan guilt and quiet fantasy, these stories reveal how a single choice or half-hidden desire can shadow—or save—an entire life for generations to come.
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A Farmer's Life
by Ernest Bywater
Categories: Fiction » Coming of Age
Farmers live their lives are ruled by the land they work and the cycles of nature. James is the son of a farmer who's orphaned by a bushfire. He continues to live with his father's old boss, but knows he has to make his own way in life after school. Life has it's ups and downs, and many challenges for James. He leaves the farm for the Army, but ends up back on a farm.
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Runaway!
by Ernest Bywater
Categories: Fiction » Coming of Age
A 9 year old boy's family are killed and he lives with his great grandfather until the man dies when he's 16. His parents raise him to be free thinking and independent. His great grandfather adds to. The welfare authorities won't let David live in the house he helped to build. So his great grandfather helps him to be true to himself when he runs away to stay free, and find a new life. 54,900 words
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Mack
by Ernest Bywater
Categories: Fiction » Coming of Age
A young man with a unique heritage that guides his destiny has to deal with many hard issues starting with the murder of his father while 10 years of age. We follow his life for the next decade while he works to survive, protect his heritage, and fight the man he holds responsible for his father's death. He's more than what he seems, and strives to meet all his responsibilities.
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