18 books like A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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Proserpine & Midas Mary Shelley · 1922 · ★ 3.4 · 54p · ≈ 1h · Challenging Mary Shelley was an English writer best known for the classic gothic novel Frankenstein which has been adapted into film many times.  This edition of Proserpine & Midas includes a table of contents.  Shares: English Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts, Drama

Sons and Lovers D. H. Lawrence · 1913 · ★ 3.6 · 510p · ≈ 17h · Challenging Sons and Lovers, a story of working-class England, is D. H. Lawrence’s third novel. It went through various drafts, and was titled “Paul Morel” until the final draft, before being published and met with an indifferent reaction from contemporary critics. Modern critics now consider it to be D. H. Lawrence’s masterpiece, with the Modern Library placing it ninth in its “100 Best English-Language… Shares: English Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts, Young men

The rose and the ring William Makepeace Thackeray · 1854 · ★ 3.8 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Challenging The Rose and the Ring is one of those special literary treats which happen when a writer for adults turns his attention to the world of children. It's a classic fairy tale, told with Thackeray's customary insight into characters, an excellent story for reading aloud to children. Shares: English Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts

Martin Eden Jack London · 1908 · ★ 4.5 · 374p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Jack London's Martin Eden was first published in 1909 and is the story of a young writer's quest for celebrity and love. Much loved by writers who identify with Martin's belief that when he posted a manuscript, 'there was no human editor at the other end, but a mere cunning arrangement of cogs that changed the manuscript from one envelope to another and stuck on the stamps,' that automatically… Shares: Autobiographical fiction, Young men, Classic Literature

Childe Harold's pilgrimage Lord Byron · 1812 · ★ 3.7 · 257p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Childe Harold's Pilgrimage was the poem which brought Lord Byron public recognition. He himself disliked the poem, because he felt it revealed too much of himself. In it a young man (called childe after the medieval term for a candidate for knighthood) travels to distant lands to relieve the boredom and weariness brought on by a life of dissipation. It is thought to be a comment on the… Shares: English Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts

Songs of innocence and of experience William Blake · 1794 · ★ 4.1 · 79p · ≈ 2h · Demanding This volume of verse by the great English poet and artist William Blake contains two collections originally published separately in 1789 and 1784. This 1925 edition was edited by British literature professor George H. Cowling. Shares: English Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts

Tender Is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1933 · ★ 3.8 · 399p · ≈ 13h · Challenging A psychiatrist, Dick Diver, treats and eventually marries a wealthy patient, Nicole. Eventually, this marriage destroys him. Shares: Facsimiles, Manuscripts, Psychological fiction, Classics

The Waves Virginia Woolf · 1931 · ★ 4.1 · 210p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Tracing the lives of a group of friends, this novel follows their development from childhood to middle age. Social events, individual achievements and disappointments form the outer structure of the book, but the focus is the inner life of the characters which is conveyed in rich poetic language. Shares: English Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts

Poems Geoffrey Chaucer · 1800 · ★ 3.6 · 631p · ≈ 21h · Demanding Chaucer's Shorter Poems consists of several of the lesser known works by Geoffrey Chaucer, author of The Canterbury Tales: The Book of the Duchess The House of Fame The Parliament of Fowles Truth Gentilesse Merciles Beaute Lak of Stedfastnesse Shares: English Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts

Exiles James Joyce · 1918 · ★ 3.5 · 158p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Exiles by James Joyce is a modernist play that explores themes of love, betrayal, and artistic integrity. The drama revolves around an Irish writer and his complex relationships with his wife and a friend. Reflecting autobiographical elements, the play delves into psychological conflict and emotional ambiguity with Joyce’s characteristic depth and nuance. Shares: English Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts, Drama

Heartbreak House George Bernard Shaw · 1919 · ★ 3.7 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Published in 1919, Heartbreak House is an examination of the failings of the European leisure classes before World War I—failings that author George Bernard Shaw blamed for the war, and that he predicted would quickly lead to another, longer war. The play is set in an English country house, where representatives of every type of English society have gathered at the home of the seemingly-mad… Shares: Facsimiles, Manuscripts, Drama

Poems Lord Byron · 1800 · ★ 4.1 · 279p · ≈ 9h · Challenging xxiii, 222 p. ; 20 cm Shares: English Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts, Drama

The Magicians Lev Grossman · 2009 · ★ 3.5 · 402p · ≈ 13h · Moderate A thrilling and original coming-of- age novel about a young man practicing magic in the real worldQuentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A senior in high school, he’s still secretly preoccupied with a series of fantasy novels he read as a child, set in a magical land called Fillory. Imagine his surprise when he finds himself unexpectedly admitted to a very secret, very exclusive college of… Shares: Manuscripts, Psychological fiction, Coming-of-age, Drama

Windy McPherson's son Sherwood Anderson · 1916 · ★ 3.5 · 330p · ≈ 11h · Challenging This is a Historical Fiction Book. The bookl tells that A young boy grows up in rural Iowa. "At the beginning of the long twilight of a summer evening, Sam McPherson, a tall big-boned boy of thirteen, with brown hair, black eyes, and an amusing little habit of tilting his chin in the air as he walked, came upon the station platform of the little corn-shipping town of Caxton in Iowa. It was a… Shares: Young men, Coming-of-age

Major Barbara George Bernard Shaw · 1909 · ★ 3.7 · 136p · ≈ 4h · Challenging This is a play with the theme of societal salvation and salvation of the human soul brought out in characters representing the rich versus the poor. Shares: Facsimiles, Manuscripts, Drama, Classic Literature

Milton's Poems John Milton · 1605 · ★ 3.7 · 520p · ≈ 17h · Demanding John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet and intellectual. His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank verse and including over ten chapters, was written in a time of immense religious flux and political upheaval. It addressed the fall of man, including the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and God's expulsion of them from the Garden of Eden.… Shares: English Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts

The last Puritan George Santayana · 1935 · 602p · ≈ 20h · Challenging "Published in 1935, George Santayana's The Last Puritan was the American philosopher's only novel and it became an instant best seller, immediately linked in its painful voyage of self-discovery to The Education of Henry Adams. It is essentially a novel of ideas expressed in the birth, life, and early death of Oliver Alden. Oliver escapes puritanical self-destruction, the inability to celebrate… Shares: Young men, Coming-of-age

Poems Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1796 · ★ 3.8 · 296p · ≈ 9h · Demanding Introduces the life of author Samuel Taylor Coleridge and presents a sample of his poetry, including complete works and excerpts, with a brief, explanatory introduction to each. Shares: English Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts

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