The Coming-of-Age Novel

The novel of growing up — David Copperfield, A Portrait of the Artist, and the fiction that follows a soul from childhood to maturity.

The making of a self

In this collection

• Grace Darling
• An Old Daguerreotype
• A Norfolk Man
• Mosquitoes
• Landor's Poetry
• The Babe in the Bulrushes
• Our own Set
• On a Peal of Bells
• Blessed Are the Meek
• The Fisher and the Fished
• Gooseberries
• The Fraser Scholarship
• Switch: how to Change Things when Change is Hard
• The Women of the Better Class
• Letters from an Exile at Botany Bay
• The King and the Bees
• Diogenes
• The Careful Angler Chose His Nook
• Get off the Earth
• The Gentle Man
• What I Found in my Pocket
• The Sons of the Caliph
• Her Secret
• The Red Moon of Meru
• Transplanted
• Tonio Kröger
• Mortlake: a Legend of Merton

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