Bildungsroman examples (pre-1930)
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This list extends the examples of Bildungsroman contained in the main article. These are novels that trace the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of the main character from (usually) childhood to maturity. These are examples from before 1930. See Bildungsroman examples (post-1930) for more recent examples.
- the 13th century Hrafnkels saga
- Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
- Jane Austen, Emma
- Pío Baroja, El árbol de la ciencia (1911) (Engl. transl. The Tree of Knowledge, 1928)
- Leslie Barringer, Gerfalcon
- L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
- Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
- Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
- Charlotte Brontë, Villette
- Frances Burney, Evelina
- Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio
- Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
- Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
- Charles Dickens, Bleak House
- Charles Dickens, Little Dorritt
- George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
- Theodor Fontane, Effi Briest
- Jeffrey Farnol, The Amateur Gentleman
- Henry Fielding, Tom Jones
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
- Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, the paragon of the genre
- Maxim Gorky, In the World
- Maxim Gorky, My Universities
- Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
- Hermann Hesse, Demian
- Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
- Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund
- James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers
- Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
- Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
- Robert Musil, The Confusions of Young Törless
- Daniel Owen, Rhys Lewis
- Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
- Bolesław Prus, Pharaoh (1895)
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (the tale told of the creature's development)
- Stendhal, Le Rouge et le Noir
- Stendhal, The Charterhouse of Parma
- Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy
- Adalbert Stifter, Der Nachsommer
- William Makepeace Thackery, The Luck of Barry Lyndon
- William Makepeace Thackery, The History of Henry Esmond
- Leo Tolstoy, Childhood/Boyhood/Youth trilogy
- Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884–85)
- Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter
- Voltaire, Candide (1759)
- Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out
- Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
- Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall (a comic inversion of the bildungsroman)
- Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson (1883)
