The Complete Short Stories Of Thomas Wolfe

The Complete Short Stories Of Thomas Wolfe PDF Author: Thomas Wolfe
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0020408919
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 660

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These fifty-eight stories make up the most thorough collection of Thomas Wolfe's short fiction to date, spanning the breadth of the author's career, from the uninhibited young writer who penned "The Train and the City" to his mature, sobering account of a terrible lynching in "The Child by Tiger". Thirty-five of these stories have never before been collected. Lightning Print On Demand Title

The Complete Short Stories Of Thomas Wolfe

The Complete Short Stories Of Thomas Wolfe PDF Author: Thomas Wolfe
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0020408919
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 660

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Book Description
These fifty-eight stories make up the most thorough collection of Thomas Wolfe's short fiction to date, spanning the breadth of the author's career, from the uninhibited young writer who penned "The Train and the City" to his mature, sobering account of a terrible lynching in "The Child by Tiger". Thirty-five of these stories have never before been collected. Lightning Print On Demand Title

Look Homeward, Angel

Look Homeward, Angel PDF Author: Thomas Wolfe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 626

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Look Homeward, Angel

Look Homeward, Angel PDF Author: Thomas Wolfe
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743297318
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 545

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A Southern family with a great appetite for living is dominated by the father until an older son, Eugene, is able to free himself from his rural North Carolina hometown to seek the challenges of an Ivy League education and big city life.

The Web and the Rock

The Web and the Rock PDF Author: Thomas Wolfe
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 733

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Web and the Rock" by Thomas Wolfe. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

The Stones of Summer

The Stones of Summer PDF Author: Dow Mossman
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780760748848
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 612

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Episodic coming of age saga.

To Loot My Life Clean

To Loot My Life Clean PDF Author: Thomas Wolfe
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570033551
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 390

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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.

Welcome to Our City

Welcome to Our City PDF Author: Thomas Wolfe
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807125038
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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In 1920 Thomas Wolfe left the South with the strong desire to become a dramatist. To pursue his chosen craft, he enrolled in the Harvard 47 Workshop, at that time the most renowned in the nation. At first he wrote plays about Appalachian society and the Civil War. But it was not until Wolfe turned to the modern South—inspired by a disturbing return to his hometown of Asheville, North Carolina—that his genius awoke. There he found the material he would work into the best of his three full-length plays written at Harvard, the material that in the next decade would be recast into the novels that would make him famous. This is the first book publication of Welcome to Our City, Thomas Wolfe’s play in ten scenes of a modern South ruled by liars and real estate agents, overrun with boosterism, and dedicated to greed. This sprawling, fiery work has lain dormant among Wolfe’s papers for over fifty years, abandoned by its author after an unsuccessful attempt to revise and shorten it for a New York Theatre Guild production. For this edition, Richard S. Kennedy has reassembled a full performance text of the workshop version presented at Harvard in 1923—a production that involved forty-five cast members, including over thirty speaking parts, required seven stage changes, and lasted over three and a half hours in performance. The action of Welcome to Our City centers on a scheme of the town fathers and real estate promoters of Altamont, a small southern city, to snatch up all the property in a centrally located black district, evict the tenants, tear down their houses and shops, and build a new white residential section in its place. When the blacks, under the angry leadership of a strong-willed doctor, resist eviction, a race riot breaks out—shattering both the precarious social balance of the city and the “progressive” dreams of Altamont’s boosters. Building on this plot, Wolfe guides his audience through the back rooms, stately homes, ans shanty towns of Altamont, contrasting tradition-bound southern characters with a new breed of life drawn from the vast menagerie of 1920s Main Street America: fact-spouting yes-men, hypocritical religious leaders, anti-intellectual professors, provincial country club matrons, and politicians inauthentic from their heads to their feet. Welcome to Our City is not merely an exhibit in the artistic development of a future novelist. Wolfe used the dramatic form inventively and with considerable inspiration to expose the culture of greed that he saw spreading around him and to caricature the men who, he feared, would usher in an age of mediocrity across America. Emotionally gripping and mockingly satiric, Welcome to Our City captures the festering social climate of the 1920s in a vision of life that is uncomfortably relevant to our own times.

From Death to Morning

From Death to Morning PDF Author: Thomas Wolfe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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The Lost Boy

The Lost Boy PDF Author: Thomas Wolfe
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807844861
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102

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

Sophie's World

Sophie's World PDF Author: Jostein Gaarder
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466804270
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 599

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A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.