Bildungsromans

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 79. Chapters: A Wizard of Earthsea, Bildungsroman, The Wasp Factory, Northanger Abbey, Great Expectations, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Tipping the Velvet, The Land of Green Plums, Mary: A Fiction, Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, Nightmare Abbey, The Magic Mountain, The Red and the Black, Villette, The Sorrows of Young Werther, The Chrysalids, Of Human Bondage, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Sentimental Education, Go Tell It on the Mountain, Siddhartha, Lanark: A Life in Four Books, Der Nachsommer, The Sword in the Stone, The Power of One, Cat and Mouse, Narcissus and Goldmund, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, The Getting of Wisdom, Spies, Peter Camenzind, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Le Grand Meaulnes, Sacred Country, The Liar, Lyddie, The Garden Party, Metroland, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, The Lamplighter, City of God, The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader, Stephen Hero, A Song of Sixpence, Green Henry. Excerpt: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is the 1969 autobiography about the early years of African-American writer and poet Maya Angelou. The first in a six-volume series, it is a coming-of-age story that illustrates how strength of character and a love of literature can help overcome racism and trauma. The book begins when three-year-old Maya and her older brother are sent to Stamps, Arkansas, to live with their grandmother and ends when Maya becomes a mother at the age of 17. In the course of Caged Bird, Maya transforms from a victim of racism with an inferiority complex into a self-possessed, dignified young woman capable of responding to prejudice. Angelou was challenged by her friend, author James Baldwin, and her editor, Robert Loomis, to write an autobiography that was also a piece of literature. Because Angelou uses thematic development and other techniques common to fiction, reviewers often categ...