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Bildungsromans Anthology: A Selection Of Classic Coming-Of-Age Stories (Golden Deer Classics) - Emma The Red And The Black Jane Eyre Martin Eden - cover

Bildungsromans Anthology: A Selection Of Classic Coming-Of-Age Stories (Golden Deer Classics) - Emma The Red And The Black Jane Eyre Martin Eden

Voltaire Voltaire, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Jack Williamson, Henry James, William Makepeace Thackeray, Joe Joyce, F Scott itzgerald, Alexander Puskin, Henri Beyle (Stendhal), David Herbert Lawrence, Book Center

Publisher: Oregan Publishing

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Summary

A Bildungsroman (German expression meaning: "novel of formation, education, culture"), novel of formation, novel of education, or coming-of-age story is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood (coming of age), in which character change is extremely important.

This Golden Deer Classics collection comprises the following classic coming-of-age stories:

- The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding  
- Candide by Voltaire
 - Emma by Jane Austen
- The Red and the Black by Stendhal
  - The Daughter of the Commandant by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin
  - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
  - David Copperfield by Charles Dickens  
- The History of Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray
  - Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  - What Maisie Knew by Henry James
  - Martin Eden by Jack London
  - Sons and Lovers by David Herbert Lawrence
  - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
  - This Side of Paradise by Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Available since: 02/18/2017.

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