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Amory Blaine 17

He read voluminously all spring, the beginning of his eighteenth year: The Gentleman from Indiana, The New Arabian Nights, The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne, The Man Who Was Thursday, which he liked without understanding; Stover at Yale, that became somewhat of a text-book; Dombey and Son, because he thought he really should read better stuff; Robert Chambers, David Graham Phillips, and E. Phillips Oppenheim complete, and a scattering of Tennyson and Kipling. Of all his class work only L’Allegro and some quality of rigid clarity in solid geometry stirred his languid interest.

F. Scott Fitzgerald  ·  This Side of Paradise

17

Victor Frankenstein

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

Mary Shelley

"When I had attained the age of seventeen my parents resolved that I should become a student at the university of Ingolstadt...."

17

Jay Gatsby né James Gatz

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent..."

17

Pinkie

Brighton Rock

Graham Greene

"“I’m seventeen too,” the Boy said, and the eyes which had never been young stared with grey contempt into the eyes which had only just begun to learn a thing or two..."

17

Christie Malry

Christie Malry’s Own Double Entry

B.S.Johnson

"Christie was silent even at the information that he had only forty-three and not forty-eight years to wait before he was free..."

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Holden Caulfied

The Catcher in the Rye

J. D. Salinger

"I was sixteen then, and I’m seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I’m about thirteen."