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Victor Wind 14

He was now fourteen but looked two or three years older – not because of his lanky height, close on six feet, but because of a casual case in demeanour, an expression of amiable aloofness about his plain but clean-cut features, and a complete lack of clumsiness or constraint which, far from precluding modesty and reserve, lent a sunny something to his shyness and a detached blandness to his quiet ways. Under his left eye a brown mole almost the size of a cent punctuated the pallor of his cheek. I do not think he loved anybody.

Vladimir Nabokov · Pnin

14

John Reed

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

Charlotte Brontë

"John Reed was a schoolboy of fourteen years old..."

14

Amory Blaine

This Side of Paradise

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"... he assumed the most romantic of expressions and walked on the air cushions that lie on the asphalts of fourteen..."

14

Charles Highway

The Rachel Papers

Martin Amis

"About my queer period..."

14

Adrian Albert Mole

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾

Sue Townsend

"I am fourteen today!"

14

Tonio Kröger

Tonio Kröger

Thomas Mann

"The real fact was that Tonio loved Hans Hansen, and had already suffered a great deal on his account..."

14

Alfred Polly

The History of Mr Polly

H.G. Wells

"At fourteen, when he emerged from the valley of shadow of education..."

14

Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

"He come in gaping and digging one fist into his eyes, and he was dragging a gun along with the other one.."

14

George Bowling

Coming Up For Air

George Orwell

"When I was about fourteen Father did a good turn of some kind to old Hodges, the caretaker at Binfield House...."

14

Tadzio

Death in Venice (Der Tod in Venedig)

Thomas Mann

"With astonishment Aschenbach noticed that the boy was entirely beautiful..."

14

Maurice Hall

Maurice

E.M. Forster

"‘When I was your age, my father told me something that proved very useful and helped me a great deal.’ "