young men

Eighteen-year-old Louden Swain learns about determination, friendship, and love as he diligently trains for a crucial state wrestling tournament.

Nineteen-year-old Wilson Ravan is caught between his father's struggle to defeat union organizers at his printing business, yellow journalism at the newspaper where he has a summer job, routine corruption in city government, and the secret past of a renowned psychiatrist whose daughter Wilson happens to be in love with.

Gabriel Lynch, an African-American teenager who has moved with his mother from New York to live on his stepfather's Kansas homestead, brings serious trouble down upon himself and his family when he leaves the farm to join a group of cowboys who turn out to be a gang of criminals.

Pip, an orphan in Victorian England, is plucked from a life of poverty and informed he is to be raised and educated as a gentleman. Includes a map of early nineteenth-century Kent, and notes on Dickens's working methods.

Contains the complete text of the 1860 novel about Pip, an orphan in Victorian England who is plucked from a life of poverty and informed he is to be educated and reared as a gentleman; and includes a critical introduction and a chronology.

Charles Dickens's classic story of orphan David Copperfield growing up in nineteenth-century England.

"A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds him of his mother, a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the art underworld"--Provided by publisher.

Eighteen-year-old James Sveck copes with the uncertainties of adolescence as he works in his mother's Manhattan art gallery, falls for a charming older gentleman, and tries to decide what he wants out of life.

Chronicles the relationship of Anthony Patch, Harvard-educated aspiring writer, and his beautiful young wife, Gloria, as they enjoy an endless string of parties as they wait for Anthony's grandfather to die and pass on his millions to them. As they're waiting, their lives quickly evolve into a chronicle of a dying marriage in a hedonistic society in which beauty is all too fleeting.

Byron is looking forward to a weekend caving trip with his older brother Jesse, as well as Jesse's girlfriend Michelle and college roommate Cole, but Cole's odd behavior is starting to put a damper on the adventure, and when temper's fray and disaster strikes, it is up to Byron to save the day.