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Books tagged with Coming of Age[67 found]

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Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen

Published: 1817-12-20. 78,204 Words.

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

Published: 1922-10-26. 55,004 Words.

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

Published: 1915-03-26. 139,477 Words.

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

Published: 1920-03-26. 83,994 Words.

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

Published: 1837-01-01. 148,875 Words.

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

Published: 2019-12-04. 49,500 Words.

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

Published: 2019-11-18. 54,900 Words.

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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