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The Lost Boy: A Novella
Thomas WolfeGrover Gant, a young boy who died of typhoid fever at the turn of the century, is portrayed through the eyes of family members Thomas Wolfe's The Lost Boy is a captivating and poignant retelling of an episode from Wolfe's childhood.
You Can't Go Home Again
Thomas WolfeYou Can't Go Home Again is a novel by Thomas Wolfe published posthumously in 1940. 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.
Look Homeward, Angel
Thomas WolfeThomas 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.
Butler County: The Boston Studio Collection
Susan R. McLainMadessa Wolfe is with her two young sons, Thomas Jr. (left) and Lionel, in 1902. Her husband, Thomas Wolfe, was president of the First National Bank of David City. The little Dutch boy cap lying on the floor gives the effect of a mother at home ...
The Complete Short Stories Of Thomas Wolfe
Thomas WolfeCollects all 58 of the distinguished American author's short stories in order of their first publication
The Good Child's River
Thomas WolfeThe work was based loosely on the early life of New York stage and costume designer Aline Bernstein, with whom Wolfe
The Longest Cave
Roger W. Brucker... Gary F. Wischmeyer, Michael A. Wolfe, Douglas Arthur Wolfe, Nancy Wolfe, Thomas Edward Wright, Herbert E., Jr. Wright, Richard F. Wykes, Robert A. Yarnell, Jean Black Yarnell, Richard A. Yasney, Barbara J. Yoder, Diane Kathleen Zeller, ...
Look Homeward, Angel
Thomas WolfeThis new edition includes an introduction by Elizabeth Kostova, author of The Historian. Wolfe's second novel, Of Time and the River, continuing the story of Eugene Gant, is also now available in Penguin Classics.
Thomas Wolfe and the Politics of Modernism
Shawn HollidayThis book combats the academic and critical inertia that currently surrounds Wolfe by exploring his complex relationship to modernism.
My Other Loneliness: Letters of Thomas Wolfe and Aline Bernstein
Preview" That time continues to live, however, in these letters and in the books that both Wolfe and Mrs. Bernstein wrote about their relationship.
Thomas Wolfe: An Annotated Critical Bibliography
John Earl BassettEntries cover books on Wolfe, reviews and critical articles of each of his four novels, reviews and critical articles on his other literary work, general studies, and a final section on other materials including dissertations.
The High Himalaya
Art Wolfe-- The new book by Art Wolfe, internationally acclaimed nature photographer -- Intimate interviews with world-renowned climbers Ed Viesturs, Doug Scott, and Reinhold Messner -- 160 stunning full-color photographs Art Wolfe has achieved what ...
Attending Daedalus: Gene Wolfe, Artifice and the Reader
Peter WrightThis new study of the fiction of Gene Wolfe, one of the most influential contemporary American science fiction writers, offers a major reinterpretation of Gene Wolfe’s four-volume The Book of the New Sun and its sequel The Urth of the New ...
Of Time and the River
Thomas WolfeThis new edition includes an introduction by Elizabeth Kostova, author of The Historian.
The Right Stuff
Tom WolfeIt is this, the inner life of the astronauts, that Tom Wolfe describes with his almost uncanny emapthetic powers, that made this book a classic.
Conversations with Tom Wolfe
Dorothy McInnis ScuraGathers interviews with Tom Wolfe from each period of his career and offers a brief profile of his life and accomplishments
A Man in Full
Tom WolfeTom Wolfe was the razor sharp chronicler of the 1980s and now boldly turns to dissect greed-obsessed America on the cusp of the millenium.
Fighting Ruben Wolfe
Markus Zusak' The Wolfe brothers know how to fight. They've been fighting all their lives. Now there's something more at stake than just winning. A powerful, poignant novel from the author of the international bestseller, The Book Thief.
Hooking Up
Tom WolfeAlso included in this collection are some of his most classic and enduring pieces of journalism, and 'Ambush at Fort Bragg', his fiercely satirical novella about sting TV. Funny, often savagely so, hard-hitting, wise, Wolfe remains a unique ...
Finding Bix: The Life and Afterlife of a Jazz Legend
Brendan WolfeThis is where Finding Bix begins: in Wolfe's good-faith attempt to get the facts right.
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Tom WolfeLong considered one of the greatest books about the history of the hippies, Wolfe's ability to research like a reporter and simultaneously evoke the hallucinogenic indulgence of the era ensures that this book, written in 1967, will live ...
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Tom WolfeThe Bonfire of the Vanities is a caustic satire on the money-feverish Eighties. This exuberant novel cemented Wolfe's reputation as the foremost chronicler of his age.
Something More Than Night: The Case of Raymond Chandler
Peter WolfeSomerset Maugham and George Grella both rate him above Dashiell Hammett; Eric Partridge deems him “a serious artist and a very considerable novelist,” while praising him as “one of the finest novelists of his time.” Peter Wolfe ...
Wolfe Tone
Marianne ElliottThis book is the definitive scholarly biography. A major contribution to Irish historiography...one which will have important public influence in challenging many of the simplistic public notions of Wolfe Tone.
Stop the Presses!
Robert GoldsboroughNero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin are tasked with protecting the most hated columnist in New York City There are few people Nero Wolfe respects, and Lon Cohen of the New York Gazette is one of them.
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