Books tagged with Coming of Age[229 found]
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Silas Marner
by George Eliot
Categories: Fiction » Coming of Age
A reclusive weaver’s life of solitude and mistrust is transformed when an unexpected child enters his world. Through love, loss, and redemption, he discovers the power of human connection and the quiet joys that can heal even the loneliest heart.
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The Old Curiosity Shop
by Charles Dickens
Categories: Fiction » Coming of Age
A tender and tragic tale of a young girl and her grandfather struggling to survive amid hardship and greed. Their journey through a world of vivid characters and moral contrasts reveals the enduring power of love and innocence.
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The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot
Categories: Fiction » Coming of Age
A powerful story of family, love, and the struggle for independence, following a spirited young woman torn between duty and desire. Set against the backdrop of rural England, it explores passion, pride, and the forces that shape a soul’s destiny.
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Paul Kelver
by Jerome K. Jerome
Categories: Fiction » Coming of Age
A young Londoner stumbles from shabby lodgings to the bright footlights, chasing success while learning the price of charm and compromise. Among journalists, actors, and kindly frauds, he navigates first love, bruising betrayals, and hard-won integrity. Wry, tender, and self-revealing, his coming-of-age is a love letter to art—and a caution about mistaking applause for purpose.
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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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Swann’s Way book 2
by Marcel Proust
Categories: Fiction » Coming of Age
As memories of love and society deepen, a young man navigates desire, jealousy, and the intricacies of social life. Reflections on art, passion, and the passage of time reveal the subtle forces that shape identity and human connection.
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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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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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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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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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Strange Art 3: Art Critic
by Devon Layne
Categories: Fiction » Coming of Age
Life is good for Arthur the artist. Girlfriends, friends, and paint. Nothing could be better. Until four words of criticism plunge his world into darkness. Arthur retreats into a dark corner of his mind and neither friends nor lovers can reach him. In order to emerge, Arthur must learn and come to grips with his own version of seeing auras.
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Strange Art 2: Art Project
by Devon Layne
Categories: Fiction » Coming of Age
Suffering from anxiety amp; panic attacks, Art is a hopeless wreck after his first week of college. Annette and Morgan encourage him to keep his class notes in a sketchbook and to draw pictures of his classmates. It opens a world of possibilities as classmates become models, models become friends, and friends battle the system to right an injustice.
And Art emerges a leader.
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Strange Art 1: Art Something
by Devon Layne
Categories: Fiction » Coming of Age
Art Étrange doesn't talk. He knows words. He has a voice. But getting words out, especially in new circumstances or in a group, is painful, confusing, and frustrating. So he paints. He paints the dreamscapes, the people, and the emotions. He paints to stay sane.
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The Agreement
by Devon Layne
Categories: Fiction » Coming of Age
Living Next Door to Heaven book 2. Do whatever is necessary to protect and defend the ones you love. Treat others with kindness and respect. Keep your promises.
Brian lived by those Life Rules. Having survived junior high, Brian's classmates, are worried. Sex is looming on the horizon and hormones are wreaking havoc.
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