The spectacular, history-making first novel about a young manâs coming of age by literary legend Thomas Wolfe, first published in 1929 and long considered a classic of twentieth century literature.
Now available from Thomas Wolfeâs original publisher, the final novel by the literary legend, that âwill stand apart from everything else that he wroteâ ( The New York Times Book Review )â&...
This classic of American literature tells the story of George Webber, a rising novelist, who returns to his hometown only to face a wave of hatred and rejection from the inhabitants, who feel his latest work ridicules their way of life. George goes into...
Letters ? mostly of the nuts-and-bolts, practical variety ? between Thomas Wolfe and his literary agent, Elizabeth Nowell. Nowell served as Wolfe?s editor for many of his short stories, paring them down to make them acceptable to magazines. Oddly enough,...
Considers intersection between history and memory in seven European countries with emphasis on social narratives that have emerged surrounding World War II and implications of that process for the development of democracy. This volume clarifies how those...
Written over an eleven-year period, these letters between Thomas Wolfe and Aline Bernstein chronicle a love affair that was by turns stormy, tender, bitter, and contrite.
The unfinished novel from which this collection of sketches, stories and novellas takes its title is credited as Wolfe's final effort. It tells the story of the Joyner family and conveys Wolfe's fine sense of family traits, rooted in a traceable...
Thomas Wolfeâs The Lost Boy is a captivating and poignant retelling of an episode from Wolfeâs childhood. The story of Wolfeâs brother Grover and his trip to the 1904 St. Louis Worldâ...
One of the most enduring characters in Thomas Wolfeâs fiction is Francis Starwick, the midwestern aesthete who befriends Eugene Gant at Harvard in Wolfeâs second autobiographical novel, Of Time and the River. In the...
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...
The Complete Short Stories of Thomas Wolfe stands as the most comprehensive edition of Thomas Wolfeâs short fiction to date. Collected by Francis E. Skipp, these fifty-eight stories span the breadth of Thomas Wolfeâs...