young men

Presents Henry Fielding's 1749 comic novel in which Tom Jones, abandoned as an infant, is adopted by Squire Allworthy and amuses himself with amorous escapades until the day he decides to leave home and seek his fortune and real identity. Includes an introduction, a chronology, a glossary, explanatory notes, and an appendix on Fielding's revisions.

An autobiographical novel depicting the childhood, adolescence, and early manhood of Stephen Dedalus.

The coming of age story of a young college man in his twenties including his years in prep school and his times at Princeton.

Sebastian Prendergast, having left the safety of the geodesic dome in which he lived after his grandmother had a stroke, meets sixteen-year-old Jared Whitcomb, and together the boys experience the angst of being teenagers while forming a punk rock band, but when Jared's grandma asks him to return to her home, he is faced with choosing between her dying wish and his newfound life.

College student Travis returns home and expects the usual, drinking, doing drugs, and hooking up with girls; but because of an incident in Hawaii and an ex-girlfriend things are different.

Odd Thomas, a short order cook at the Pico Mundo Grill, keeps his ability to speak with ghosts a secret from all but his girlfriend, Stormy, and the local police chief who he occasionally helps solve or prevent crime, but his unusual talent leads him and his fellow citizens into big trouble when a strange man comes to town followed by a horde of borachs--ghostly harbingers of mayhem.

Through three turbulent decades, Forrest rides a tide of events that whisks him from physical disability to football stardom, from Vietnam hero to shrimp tycoon, from White House honors to the arms of his one true love.

An adaptation of Charles Dickens's novel in which a nineteenth-century orphan boy tells his life story, relating the way he overcame an unhappy childhood.

The story of Pip, an orphan in Victorian England who is informed one day that he has "great expectations" and is to be educated and reared as a gentleman.