<sod>  A '''''bildungsroman''''' ([[German language|German]]: "novel of education" or "novel of formation") is a [[novel]] which traces the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of the main character from (usually) childhood to maturity.
 
==Some prominent examples==
*[[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe|Goethe]]'s ''[[Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship]]''
*[[Marcel Proust]]'s ''[[In Search of Lost Time]]''
*[[Hermann Hesse]]'s ''[[Demian|Demian]]'', ''[[Siddhartha (book)|Siddhartha]]'' and ''[[Steppenwolf]]''
*[[James Joyce|Joyce]]'s ''[[Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man]]''
*[[Henry Fielding]]'s ''[[The_History_of_Tom_Jones%2C_a_Foundling|Tom Jones]]''
*[[Charles Dickens]]'s ''[[Great Expectations]]'', ''[[David Copperfield (novel)|David Copperfield]]'', ''[[A Christmas Carol]]''
*[[Laurence Sterne]]'s ''[[Tristram Shandy]]''
*[[Oscar Wilde]]'s ''[[The Picture of Dorian Gray]]''
*[[Daniel Defoe]]'s ''[[Moll Flanders]]''
*[[Mark Twain]]'s ''[[Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]''
*the 13th century ''[[Hrafnkels saga]]''
*[[Somerset Maugham]]'s [[Of Human Bondage]]
*[[Ralph Ellison]]'s [[Invisible Man]]
 
 ==More contemporary examples==
 *[[Iain Banks]]' ''[[The Crow Road]]''
 <eod> <sod> A '''''bildungsroman''''' ([[German language|German]]: "novel of education" or "novel of formation") is a [[novel]] which traces the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of the main character from (usually) childhood to maturity.
 
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 ==More contemporary examples==
 *[[Iain Banks]]' ''[[The Crow Road]]''
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