LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL, Wolfe's first novel, was published on October 18, 1929 only a few days before the great stock market crash. It is the coming-of-age story of Eugene Gant, whose restlessness and yearning to experience life to the fullest take him from his rural home in North Carolina to Harvard. Through his rich, ornate prose and meticulous ...
Thomas Wolfe's final novel before his death in 1938 follows his autobiographical character, George Webber, from the publication of his first novel in November of 1929 to a mid-1930s visit to Germany, a country he had once loved, in its most corrupt moment. In between there are sharply observed portraits of Wolfe's literary and social peers in an ...
Thomas Wolfe's autobiographical character Eugene Gant makes his way from small-town North Carolina to New York City. In spite of his homesickness, Gant slowly and ecstatically assimilates the urban life, recognizing it as a necessary ordeal for the birth of his creative genius as a writer. Still searching, he travels to Europe, but returns when he ...
Tom Wolfe introduces a wide range of journalistic reportage by writers including Truman Capote, Terry Southern, George Plimpton, Norman Mailer and Hunter S. Thompson.
Thomas Wolfe's classic coming-of-age novel, first published in 1929, is a work of epic grandeur, evoking a time and place with extraordinary lyricism and precision. Set in Altamont, North Carolina, this semi-autobiographical novel tells the story of a restless young man who longs to escape his tumultuous family and his small town existence.
Wolfe's short stories were often warmups for his novels, or unused sections of novels, or passages that were excised in the editing process. Consequently, many of them are somewhat shapeless or rambling. However, Wolfe's gifts for evoking strong emotion, a sense of place, and the poignancy of loss are very much in evidence.
Thomas Wolfe contended that The Web and the Rock, the precursor to You Cant Go Home Again, was "not only a turning away from the books I have written in the past, but a genuine spiritual and artistic change." To demonstrate his commitment to a new literary direction, he transformed his protagonist Eugene Gant into the more mature and aware George ...
From four talented authors comes a collection of sexy and erotic novellas in Kensington's first collection in the gay vampire genre. Features works by Michael Thomas Ford, William J. Mann, Sean Wolfe, and Jeff Mann.
The sequel to Thomas Wolfe's remarkable first novel, "Look Homeward, Angel, Of Time and the River" is one of the great classics of American literature. The book chronicles the maturing of Wolfe's autobiographical character, Eugene Gant, in his desperate search for fulfillment, making his way from small-town North Carolina to the wider world of ...
In this novella Thomas Wolfe displays his unmatched literary autobiographical style and uses a polyphonic narrative structure to present the tragic death of his 12-year-old brother Grover at the World's Fair in St. Louis in 1904. In shorter versions this story appeared first in Redbook magazine in 1937, in THE HILLS BEYOND in 1941, and in a short ...
An unabridged version of "Look Homeward, Angel". On original publication 66,000 words were omitted for reasons of propriety and publishing economics, using the carbon copy of the original typescript, the Bruccolis have established the original text.
Thomas Wolfe's autobiographical character Eugene Gant makes his way from small-town North Carolina to New York City. In spite of his homesickness, Gant slowly and ecstatically assimilates the urban life, recognizing it as a necessary ordeal for the birth of his creative genius as a writer. Still searching, he travels to Europe, but returns when he ...
The letters between Wolfe and his indefatigable editor Maxwell Perkins at Scribner's give a thorough account of their relationship as it developed during the writing of Wolfe's novels. Wolfe wrote to Perkins not only about his writing but about his life, and the letters also provide an illuminating glimpse into the psyche of an ambitious, ...
Thomas Wolfe remains one of the least understood of the major twentieth-century American writers, but his relationship with his most influential teacher sheds new light on his creative genius and on the nurture of creativity in general. Edited by Ted Mitchell, "Windows of the Heart" collects seventy-five letters exchanged between Wolfe and ...
This is the never-before-published extended version of Wolfe's short story in memory of his father."The Four Lost Men" is the first publication of the long version of Wolfe's story of familial and national reflection set during World War I. Wolfe supplies a moving portrait of his dying father, as well as a rich mediation on American history and ...
Originally given as speeches, Thomas Wolfe's autobiographical musings illuminate his life as a writer, and specifically the process of writing OF TIME AND THE RIVER. Wolfe is unsparing and candid in his account of his reactions to both failure and success.
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These 162 impassioned, tormented letters between Thomas Wolfe and the woman he loved, who also served as his mentor and muse, shed light on Wolfe's creative process.
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