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The Sorrows of Young Werther
novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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In Search of Lost Time
novel sequence by Marcel Proust
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
1848 novel by Anne Brontë
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Of Human Bondage
1915 novel and bildungsroman by William Somerset Maugham
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The Moon and Sixpence
1919 novel by W Somerset Maugham
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Life A User's Manual
1978 novel by Georges Perec
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El Túnel
novel by Ernesto Sabato
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
Book by Tracy Chevalier
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An Artist of the Floating World
novel by Kazuo Ishiguro
Unfinished Portrait
novel by Agatha Christie
The Gods Are Athirst
novel by Anatole France
La Maison du Chat-qui-pelote
novella by Honoré de Balzac
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L'Œuvre
(The Masterpiece) is the fourteenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola. It was first serialized in the periodical Gil Blas beginning in December 1885 before being published in novel form by Charpentier in 1886.
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The Map and the Territory
novel by Michel Houellebecq
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In the sky
1889 novel by Octave Mirbeau
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Bluebeard
novel by Kurt Vonnegut
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Lust for Life
1934 novel by Irving Stone
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
novel by Michael Chabon
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
1961 novel by Irving Stone
The Way to Paradise
novel by Mario Vargas Llosa
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The Rules of Attraction
1987 novel by Bret Easton Ellis
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The Day of the Locust
1939 novel by Nathanael West
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Chasing Vermeer
2004 novel by Blue Balliett
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Cat's Eye
1988 novel by Margaret Atwood
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The Light That Failed
novel by Rudyard Kipling
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La Bourse
1832 novel by Honoré de Balzac
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When Jonathan Died
1991 novel by Tony Duvert
Pierre Grassou
1839 novel by Honoré de Balzac
Kyōko no Ie
novel by Yukio Mishima
Klingsor's Last Summer
1919 novel by Hermann Hesse
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Roderick Hudson
novel by Henry James
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The Law of Nines
novel by Terry Goodkind
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The Tragic Muse
novel by Henry James
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Confidence
novel by Henry James
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Another Country
novel by James Baldwin
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Death of a Hero
novel by Richard Aldington
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Trilby
1894 novel by George du Maurier
Künstlerroman
A Künstlerroman (; plural -ane), meaning "artist's novel" in English, is a narrative about an artist's growth to maturity. It could be classified as a sub-category of Bildungsroman: a coming-of-age novel. According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, one way a Künstlerroman may differ from a Bildungsroman is its ending, where a Künstlerroman hero rejects the everyday life, but a Bildungsroman hero settles for being an ordinary citizen. According to Oxford Reference, the difference may lie in a longer view across the Künstlerroman hero's whole life, not just their childhood years. A novel specifically
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The Bone People
1984 novel by Keri Hulme
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My Name Is Asher Lev
novel by Chaim Potok
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The "Genius"
novel by Theodore Dreiser
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I'll Give You The Sun
young adult novel by Jandy Nelson
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Me and Kaminski
novel by Daniel Kehlmann
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The Painter of Signs
novel by Indian author R.K. Narayan