Product Description: You Can't Go Home Again is a novel by Thomas Wolfe published posthumously in 1940, extracted by his editor, Edward Aswell, from the contents of his vast unpublished manuscript The October Fair. The novel tells the story of George Webber, a fledgling author, who writes a book that makes frequent references to his home town of Libya Hill...read more

Eugene Gant's quest for identity and reality takes him to New York, Oxford, Paris, and finally to his Carolina home

Product Description: Shortly before his death at a tragically young age, author Thomas Wolfe presented his editor with an epic masterwork that was subsequently published as three separate novels: You Can't Go Home Again, The Hills Beyond, and The Web and the Rock...read more

Product Description: Readers of Thomas Wolfe's autobiographical outline will better understand how his first and most widely read novel, Look Homeward, Angel, came into being. Superbly edited and annotated by Lucy Conniff and Richard S. Kennedy, this vibrant document records a young writer's determination to forge art from the details of his life, providing an unparalleled view of a novelist's mind at work...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The relationship between Thomas Wolfe and his editor, Maxwell Perkins has been the subject of guesswork and anecdote for 70 years. Scholars have debated Wolfe's dependence on his editor. This volume of 251 letters should clarify the relationship and set the record straight. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

(view table of contents)

This wonderful and compelling collection of stories and character sketches contains some of the finest Wolfe ever wrote. (view table of contents)

Leaving his Southern home for Harvard University, New York City, and then, Europe, Eugen Gant explores his manhood and his American identity, falling in love with a beautiful stage designer along the way. (view table of contents)

George Webber, a struggling writer, is drawn to New York to pursue his career

The stunning, classic coming-of-age novel written by one of America's foremost Southern writers A legendary author on par with William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Wolfe published Look Homeward, Angel, his first novel, about a young man's burning desire to leave his small town and tumultuous family in search of a better life, in 1929. It gave the world proof of his genius and launched a powerful legacy. The novel follows the trajectory of Eugene Gant, a brilliant and restless young man whose wanderlust and passion shape his adolescent years in rural North Carolina. Wolfe said that Look Homeward, Angel is "a book made out of my life," and his largely autobiographical story about the quest for a greater intellectual life has resonated with and influenced generations of readers, including some of today's most important novelists. Rich with lyrical prose and vivid characterizations, this twentieth-century American classic will capture the hearts and imaginations of every reader.

Gathers baseball stories by Damon Runyon, James Thurber, W.P. Kinsella, Paul Gallico, Garrison Keillor, Roger Angell, Shirley Jackson, and Thomas Wolfe

A large family with a great appetite for living is dominated by the father until an older son, Gant, is able to free himself

Product Description: One of the most enduring characters in Thomas Wolfe's fiction is Francis Starwick, the Midwestern aesthete who befriends Eugene Grant at Harvard in Wolfe's second autobiographical novel, Of Time and the River. Wolfe created Starwick in order to provide a foil for the artistic development of Eugene: Starwick was the pretentious, narrow-minded dilettante whose response to the arts is all talk and pose, as compared with Eugene, who hopes to express in writing his intensity of feeling about all aspects of lifeWhile writing the novel, however, Wolfe found his manuscript proliferating beyond his control, and he turned to his editor at Scribner's Maxwell Perkins, for help in shaping the final version of the book...read more

Grover Gant, a young boy who died of typhoid fever at the turn of the century, is portrayed through the eyes of family members

Product Description: For the last eight years of his life, Thomas Wolfe worked periodically on a series of chapters that were part of a huge work-in-progress. The work was based loosely on the early life of New York stage and costume designer Aline Bernstein, with whom Wolfe was engaged in a tempestuous love affair for eleven years...read more

Product Description: Book by Wolfe, Thomas

Product Description: Book by Wolfe, Thomas

An anthology of Appalachian literature designed for high school students, containing fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, ballads, and examples of mountain speech and song.