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The Lost Boy: A Novella

The Lost Boy: A Novella

Thomas Wolfe

Grover 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

You Can't Go Home Again

Thomas Wolfe

You 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

Look Homeward, Angel

Thomas Wolfe

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.
Butler County: The Boston Studio Collection

Butler County: The Boston Studio Collection

Susan R. McLain

Madessa 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

The Complete Short Stories Of Thomas Wolfe

Thomas Wolfe

Collects all 58 of the distinguished American author's short stories in order of their first publication
The Good Child's River

The Good Child's River

Thomas Wolfe

The work was based loosely on the early life of New York stage and costume designer Aline Bernstein, with whom Wolfe
The Longest Cave

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

Look Homeward, Angel

Thomas Wolfe

This 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

Thomas Wolfe and the Politics of Modernism

Shawn Holliday

This 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

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

Thomas Wolfe: An Annotated Critical Bibliography

John Earl Bassett

Entries 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

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

Attending Daedalus: Gene Wolfe, Artifice and the Reader

Peter Wright

This 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

Of Time and the River

Thomas Wolfe

This new edition includes an introduction by Elizabeth Kostova, author of The Historian.
The Right Stuff

The Right Stuff

Tom Wolfe

It 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

Conversations with Tom Wolfe

Dorothy McInnis Scura

Gathers interviews with Tom Wolfe from each period of his career and offers a brief profile of his life and accomplishments
Tom Wolfe

Tom Wolfe

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Presents a collection of critical essays about the works of Tom Wolfe.
A Man in Full

A Man in Full

Tom Wolfe

Tom 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

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

Hooking Up

Tom Wolfe

Also 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

Finding Bix: The Life and Afterlife of a Jazz Legend

Brendan Wolfe

This is where Finding Bix begins: in Wolfe's good-faith attempt to get the facts right.
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Tom Wolfe

Long 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

The Bonfire of the Vanities

Tom Wolfe

The 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

Something More Than Night: The Case of Raymond Chandler

Peter Wolfe

Somerset 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

Wolfe Tone

Marianne Elliott

This 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!

Stop the Presses!

Robert Goldsborough

Nero 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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