Coming-of-age stories focus on the growth of a protagonist from childhood to adulthood, or "coming of age", and span a variety of media, including literature, theatre, film, and video games. In literature The Telemachy in Homer's Odyssey (8th century BC) Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, by Ibn Tufail (12th century) The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, by Henry Fielding (1749) The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, by Laurence Sterne (1759) Candide, by Voltaire (1759) Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen (1817) Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens (1837–1839) Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens (1860–1861) Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott (1868–1869) Little Men, by Louisa May Alcott (1871) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain (1876) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain (1884–1885) The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (1894) The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane (1894–1895) The Blue Lagoon, by Henry De Vere Stacpoole (1908) Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery (1908) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916) All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque (1929) The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers (1940) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith (1943) Johnny Tremain, by Esther Forbes (1943) The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger (1951) East of Eden, by John Steinbeck (1952) Old Yeller, by Fred Gipson (1956) The Baron in the Trees, by Italo Calvino (1957) Flowers for Algernon, short story and novel by Daniel Keyes (short story 1959, novel 1966) To Kill a Mockingbird, novel by Harper Lee (1960) Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls (1961) A Clockwork Orange, a novel by Anthony Burgess (1962) The Learning Tree, novel by Gordon Parks (1963) The Graduate, novel by Charles Webb (1963) The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath (1964) The Last Picture Show, by Larry McMurtry (1966) The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton (1967) Last Summer, by Evan Hunter (1968) Sounder, by William H. Armstrong (1969) A Day No Pigs Would Die, by Robert Newton Peck (1972) A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich, by Alice Childress (1973) Ordinary People, by Judith Guest (1976) A River Runs Through It, by Norman Maclean (1976) Vision Quest, by Terry Davis (1979) The Body, short story by Stephen King (1982) The Color Purple, by Alice Walker (1982) The Sheep-Pig, by Dick King-Smith (1983) Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card (1985)