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Young adults

Here are entered works on people in the general age range of eighteen through twenty-five years.

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• Adulthood
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• Young adults -- Australia
• Young adults -- Conduct of life
• Young adults -- Fiction
• Young adults -- Life skills guides
• Young adults -- Periodicals
• Young adults -- Religious life
• Young adults -- Sexual behavior
• Young adults -- Social life and customs
• Young adults -- United States
• Young adults with disabilities
• Young men
• Young women

• Young people
• Young persons

• The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture is Reinventing Capitalism (free download requires name and email (kept private); New York et al.: Free Press, 2008), by Matt Mason (PDF with commentary at thepiratesdilemma.com)
• At Work With Young Adults (New York: Association Press, 1950), by Allen S. Ellsworth (page images at HathiTrust)

• Imagining the Future: Young Australians on Sex, Love and Community (Adelaide, SA: University of Adelaide Press, 2012), by Chilla Bulbeck (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)

• Imagining the Future: Young Australians on Sex, Love and Community (Adelaide, SA: University of Adelaide Press, 2012), by Chilla Bulbeck (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)

• Imagining the Future: Young Australians on Sex, Love and Community (Adelaide, SA: University of Adelaide Press, 2012), by Chilla Bulbeck (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)

• Rovering to Success: A Book of Life-Sport for Young Men (London: H. Jenkins Ltd., 1922), by Robert Baden-Powell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Forewarned-Forearmed (New York: A. C. Armstrong and Son, ca. 1885), by John Thain Davidson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures to Young Men, by William Greenleaf Eliot (page images at MOA)
• The Way Lost and Found: A Book for the Young, Especially Young Men, by Joseph F. Tuttle (page images at MOA)
• The Young Man's Guide (tenth edition, 1836), by William A. Alcott (HTML at nimbus.org)
• Lectures to Young Men on Various Important Subjects (1853), by Henry Ward Beecher (searchable page images at Google)
• Lectures to Young Men on Various Important Subjects (New York: J. C. Derby, 1856), by Henry Ward Beecher (searchable page images at Google)

• Letters to His Son by the Earl of Chesterfield, on the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, ed. by David Widger, contrib. by Oliver H. H. Leigh (Gutenberg text)

• A Dog with a Bad Name, by Talbot Baines Reed (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Three People (Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co., c1899), by Isabella Macdonald Alden (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Frank Merriwell on the Road: or, The All-Star Combination (New York: Street and Smith, c1898), by Burt L. Standish (Gutenberg text)
• Frank Merriwell's Own Company: or, Barnstorming in the Middle West (New York: Street and Smith, c1898), by Burt L. Standish (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• My Friend Smith, by Talbot Baines Reed (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• A Garland for Girls, by Louisa May Alcott (Gutenberg text)
• The Hall With Doors (New York: The Womans Press, 1920), by Louise Hasbrouck Zimm, illust. by Clinton Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures to Young Women, by William Greenleaf Eliot (page images at MOA)
• Letters of Love and Counsel for "Our Girls" (Moundsville, WV: Gospel Trumpet Co., 1898), by Jennie Carpenter Rutty (page images at HathiTrust)
• Serious Hours of a Young Lady, by Charles Sainte-Foi, trans. by Philaletes (Gutenberg text)
• The Young Lady's Counsellor, by Daniel Wise (page images at MOA)
• The Young Misses Magazine: Containing Dialogues Between a Governess and Several Young Ladies of Quality, Her Scholars (2 volumes; Glasgow: J. A. Mundell, 1800), by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google

• Essays on Various Subjects, Principally Designed for Young Ladies (London: Printed for J. Wilkie and T. Cadell, 1777), by Hannah More (Gutenberg text)
• Mentoria: or, The Young Lady's Friend (2 volumes; Philadelphia: Printed for R. Campbell, 1794), by Mrs. Rowson
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML at Evans TCP

• Felicia to Charlotte: Being Letters From a Young Lady in the Country, To Her Friend in Town (published separately from a similarly-named sequel; London: Printed for R. Griffiths and G. Woodfall, 1749), by Mary Collyer
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Heather's Mistress (New York: T. Y. Crowell and Co., 1901), by Amy Le Feuvre (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Letters From Felicia to Charlotte, Volume Second (London: Printed for J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1749), by Mary Collyer (multiple formats at Google)
• Mentoria: or, The Young Lady's Friend (2 volumes; Philadelphia: Printed for R. Campbell, 1794), by Mrs. Rowson
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML at Evans TCP

• Elinor Wyllys (with commentary), by Susan Fenimore Cooper, ed. by James Fenimore Cooper
  • volume 1: Gutenberg text
  • volume 2: Gutenberg text
• Elinor Wyllys: or, The Young Folk of Longbridge: A Tale (Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1846; with commentary), by Susan Fenimore Cooper
  • volume 1: HTML at James Fenimore Cooper Society
  • volume 2: HTML at James Fenimore Cooper Society
• These Twain (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1915), by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)

• Redbook (partial serial archives)

• The Call of the Twentieth Century: An Address to Young Men (1903), by David Starr Jordan (Gutenberg text)
• Familiar Letters to Young Men on Various Subjects, by William A. Alcott (page images at MOA)
• Lectures to Young Men on Various Important Subjects (1853), by Henry Ward Beecher (searchable page images at Google)
• Lectures to Young Men on Various Important Subjects (New York: J. C. Derby, 1856), by Henry Ward Beecher (searchable page images at Google)
• Plain Words to Young Men, by Augustus Woodbury (page images at MOA)
• The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion (1860 edition), by Margaret C. Conkling (page images at MOA)
• Tempted London: Young Men (New York: A. C. Armstrong and Son, c1889) (HTML at victorianlondon.org)

• eGirls, eCitizens (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2015), ed. by Jane Bailey and Valerie M. Steeves (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)
• Girls and Women (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892), by Harriet E. Paine (page images at Harvard)
• Girls: Faults and Ideals, by J. R. Miller (Gutenberg text)
• Thoughts of Busy Girls (New York: Cassell Pub. Co., c1892), ed. by Grace H. Dodge
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at Harvard
• Unsere Jungen Mädchen, und ihre Aufgaben in der Gegenwart: Ein Buch für Eltern und Töchter (in German; Berlin: L. Oehmigke, 1892), by Anna Sophie Charlotte Klapp (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Young Woman's Guide, by William A. Alcott (Gutenberg text)
• Your Affectionate Godmother (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1914), by Elinor Glyn, illust. by Grace Hart (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Family Monitor and Domestic Guide (uniform American edition of The Women of England, The Daughters of England, The Wives of England, and The Mothers of England; New York: E. Walker, ca. 1844), by Sarah Stickney Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Looking Out on Life: A Book for Girls on Practical Subjects Based on Many Letters From Wise Mothers (Boston: D. Lothrop, c1892), by Francis E. Clark (multiple formats at archive.org)

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