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Look Homeward, Angel
A Story of the Buried Life€ 35,95 -
Look Homeward, Angel
A Story of the Buried Life€ 46,95 -
Look Homeward, Angel
€ 35,95 -
Look Homeward, Angel
€ 46,95 -
Look Homeward, Angel
Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel is a monumental autobiographical novel of youth, family, and artistic awakening in early twentieth-century America. Centered on Eugene Gant, a sensitive boy growing up in the fictional town of Altamont, it transforms the raw materials of provincial life-domestic conflict, ambition, grief, sexuality, and longing-into a sweeping lyrical narrative. Its expansive sentences, emotional intensity, and near-epic accumulation of detail place it between modernist experimentation and the American tradition of the bildungsroman. Wolfe drew deeply from his own upbringing in Asheville, North Carolina, and from his turbulent effort to convert memory into art. The Gant family closely reflects Wolfe's own household: a stonecutter father, a possessive mother involved in boardinghouse life, and siblings marked by affection and resentment. Educated at the University of North Carolina and Harvard, Wolfe brought theatrical training, literary ambition, and personal exile to a work that seeks to recover the lost world of childhood. This novel is recommended to readers who value passionate prose, psychological richness, and the drama of becoming an artist. It rewards patience with an unforgettable portrait of American youth and the ache of home.
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The Starwick Episodes
Richard S. Kennedy (1920-2003) was a professor emeritus of English at Temple University, the biographer of Thomas Wolfe and E. E. Cummings, and the author or editor of numerous other literary works, including Literary New Orleans: Essays and Meditations and Welcome to Our City, by Thomas Wolfe.
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Look Homeward, Angel
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Look Homeward, Angel
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The Web and the Rock
The Web and the Rock traces the early life and awakening of George Webber, Wolfe's thinly veiled alter ego, from provincial Southern origins toward the tumultuous promise of New York. Expansive, lyrical, and intensely autobiographical, the novel joins Bildungsroman, social panorama, and modernist confession. Its rolling cadences, sensuous catalogues, and emotional excess place it within the great American search for identity between the wars. Thomas Wolfe, born in Asheville, North Carolina, transformed personal memory into mythic fiction. After Harvard study, dramatic ambitions, and years in New York, he became famous for Look Homeward, Angel, while also struggling with editors, fame, and the burden of autobiographical exposure. The Web and the Rock, published posthumously in 1939, reflects his break from earlier materials and his attempt to reshape experience into a broader vision of America. Readers drawn to large, passionate novels of self-discovery will find this book indispensable. Though demanding in its intensity and scale, it rewards patience with extraordinary verbal energy and psychological candor. It is especially recommended for admirers of American modernism, autobiographical fiction, and writers who turn private longing into national literature.
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You Can't Go Home Again
Thomas Wolfe's You Can't Go Home Again is a capacious, posthumously published novel tracing George Webber, Wolfe's autobiographical surrogate, after a successful book turns his hometown against him. Moving from provincial America to New York society and a troubled Europe, the novel blends social panorama, confessional intensity, and prophetic critique. Its long, surging sentences and emotional amplitude place it between modernist experimentation and Whitmanesque romantic realism, while its attention to Depression-era dislocation and rising fascism gives the personal quest historical urgency. Wolfe, born in Asheville, North Carolina, repeatedly transformed his own life into fiction, often at the cost of wounding those who recognized themselves in his pages. His fraught relation to home, fame, exile, and artistic responsibility directly informs this final work. Edited after his death by Edward Aswell from Wolfe's vast manuscript materials, the book stands as both culmination and farewell, shaped by the author's restless ambition to make literature equal to lived experience. Readers interested in autobiographical fiction, American modernism, and the moral burdens of authorship will find this novel indispensable. It is especially rewarding for those who value expansive prose, social criticism, and a searching meditation on why the past can be revisited but never fully recovered.
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Oaths in the Supreme Court of Judicature
A Manual for the Use of Commissioners to Administer Oaths in the Supreme Courts of Judicature in England and Ireland, and of All Other Persons Empowered to Administer Oaths in Aid of Proceedings in Courts of Law€ 17,95 -
Look Homeward, Angel
A Story of a Buried Life€ 20,95