young men

A novel by Thorton Wilder that is part autobiographical and part the imagined adventures of his twin brother who died at birth, in which Theophilus North sets out to see the world in the summer of 1926.

Jacob Flanders, a sensitive young man raised in Edwardian England, discovers as an adult that his life is lacking, but his search for fulfillment is sidetracked by the outbreak of World War I. Includes extracts from Woolf's diaries and letters, comments on the novel, a selection of short stories by Woolf, critical essays, and other reference material.

Nathan Carter, at loose ends after the death of his father and the failure of another romance, moves from Boston to Eden, Vermont, where he is befriended by cranky seventy-nine-year-old Wallace Fiske who tells him a story that helps Carter put his own life back in order.

Presents Herman Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener," in which Bartleby, a copyist at a New York City law office, begins to inexplicably refuse work with the line "I would prefer not to"; and "Benito Cereno," a story of rebellion aboard a slave ship.

When Tristran Thorn travels to find the star that fell out of the sky to give to his beloved, he discovers that what he believes about the world is not always so.

Traces the childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood of Stephen Dedalus, a character based on author James Joyce's life. Includes essays on related history and contexts, a selection of criticism, and a bibliography.

Seth Quinn returns from Europe a successful painter to settle down once again in the seaside town of St. Christopher, Maryland, and becomes interested in local florist Dru Whitcomb, but the course of true love does not run true when their pasts conspire to tear them apart.

Artie Kipps, orphaned at a young age and raised by his aunt and uncle who apprenticed him to a draper, struggles to master the rules and etiquette of polite society after learning that he is the grandson and heir of a very wealthy gentleman.