18 books like The German Bildungsroman from Wieland to Hesse

What to read after The German Bildungsroman from Wieland to Hesse — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Unbecoming women Susan Fraiman · 1993 · 189p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "Is there a "female Bildungsroman"? Can the story of Elizabeth Bennet's development be yoked to a genre conceived in terms of Wilhelm Meister and David Copperfield? Unbecoming Women unpacks the ideological baggage of the Bildungsroman, and turns to novels of development and conduct books by women for a new poetics of growing up." "In subtle readings of works by Frances Burney, Jane Austen,… Shares Maturation, Bildungsroman, Bildungsromans, History and criticism

New perspectives on the European Bildungsroman

New perspectives on the European Bildungsroman Giovanna Summerfield · 2010 · 204p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares Bildungsromans, History and criticism with this book.

All the Way

All the Way Alyson Greaves · 2025 Shares Bildungsroman with this book.

Abyssinian Chronicles Moses Isegawa · 2000 · ★ 4.0 · 493p · ≈ 16h · Moderate "The teller of this tale is Mugezi, a quick-witted, sharp-eyed man whose life encompasses the traditional and the modern, the peaceful and the insanely violent, the despotic and the democratic. Born in a rural community in the early l960s, he is raised by his grandfather, a deposed clan chief, and his great-aunt, or "grandmother," after his parents immigrate to the capital city of Kampala. At… Shares Bildungsromans

Der Nachsommer Adalbert Stifter · 1900 · 927p · ≈ 30h · Challenging Shares Bildungsromans with this book.

Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture

Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture Helena Feder · 2016 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares Bildungsromans with this book.

Gadis Pantai Pramoedya Ananta Toer · 1987 · ★ 4.2 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "In a poor coastal fishing village, a beautiful girl unknowingly attracts the attention of a local aristocrat. Before she knows it, she is forced to marry this man she has never seen and leave behind all that is familiar to her - her carefree days spent helping her mother with daily tasks, dreamily listening to the sounds of the wind and the waves, and watching boats come and go. She is taken… Shares Bildungsromans

Sinister street Sir Compton Mackenzie · 1913 · 832p · ≈ 27h · Challenging Michael Fane arrives in the thin red house in Carlington Road to his new family of Nurse, Cook, Annie the housemaid, his younger sister Stella, and the occasional presence of Mother. From here, the novel follows the next twenty years of his life as he tries to find his place in the upper echelons of Edwardian society, through prep school, studies at Oxford, and his emergence into the wide world.… Shares Bildungsromans

Die deutsche Heldensage Wilhelm Grimm · 1829 · 426p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Shares German literature, History and criticism with this book.

Coming of Age in Franco's Spain

Coming of Age in Franco's Spain Michael D. Thomas · 1899 · 139p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Shares Bildungsromans, History and criticism with this book.

Behauptete Subjektivität

Behauptete Subjektivität Markus Malo · 2009 · 338p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares German literature, History and criticism with this book.

Demian Hermann Hesse · 1919 · ★ 4.1 · 171p · ≈ 5h · Moderate A young man awakens to selfhood and to a world of possibilities beyond the conventions of his upbringing in Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse’s beloved novel Demian. Emil Sinclair is a quiet boy drawn into a forbidden yet seductive realm of petty crime and defiance. His guide is his precocious, mysterious classmate Max Demian, who provokes in Emil a search for self-discovery and spiritual… Shares Bildungsroman, German fiction, Bildungsromans

Unternehmen „Stardust“ Karl-Herbert Scheer · 1969 · ★ 5.0 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Translation of two volumes of the German science fiction series Perry Rhodan which began publication in 1961. It is a space opera, dealing with several themes of science fiction. Shares German fiction

A thousand tomorrows Karen Kingsbury · 2005 · ★ 4.4 · 242p · ≈ 8h · Moderate In this mass market edition, #1 bestselling author Karen Kingsbury weaves a powerful story of a young couple whose love must face the ultimate challenge.Cody Gunner has no use for real love. Abandoned as a child by the person he needed the most, he swears he will never allow himself to love again. Ali Daniels denies love as well. Carrying a terrible secret, she lives life to the fullest, taking… Shares Psychological fiction

Volos, i︠a︡zycheskoe bozhestvo slavi︠a︡no-russov, sravnennoe s Odinom skandinavov

Volos, i︠a︡zycheskoe bozhestvo slavi︠a︡no-russov, sravnennoe s Odinom skandinavov Stefan Sabinin · 1843 · 36p · ≈ 1h · Challenging Shares History and criticism with this book.

King Arthur in history and legend William Lewis Jones · 1911 · 146p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Shares History and criticism with this book.

Ageing, Gender, and Illness in Anglophone Literature Heike Hartung · 2015 · 252p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Shares Bildungsromans, History and criticism with this book.

Die Leiden des jungen Werthers Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1779 · ★ 3.7 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Edición de Manuel José González. Shares German literature, German fiction

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