Wolfe, Thomas 1900-1938

Overview

Works:	2,112 works in 4,289 publications in 8 languages and 145,277 library holdings
Genres:	Fiction Criticism, interpretation, etc Biography Domestic fiction Drama History Diaries Poetry Bildungsromans Autobiographical fiction
Roles:	Creator, Bibliographic antecedent, Other, Honoree, Speaker
Classifications:	PS3545.O337, 813.52

Publication Timeline

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Publications about Thomas Wolfe

Publications by Thomas Wolfe

Publications by Thomas Wolfe, published posthumously.

Most widely held works about Thomas Wolfe

Thomas Wolfe : a biography by Elizabeth Nowell ( Book )
Look homeward : a life of Thomas Wolfe by David Herbert Donald ( Book )
Thomas Wolfe by W. Ross Winterowd ( Book )
Cavalcade of the American novel, from the birth of the Nation to the middle of the twentieth century by Edward Wagenknecht ( Book )
The American novel, 1789-1939 by Carl Van Doren ( Book )

Thomas Wolfe by C. Hugh Holman ( Book )
Seven modern American novelists; an introduction by William Van O'Connor ( Book )
Novelists' America; fiction as history, 1910-1940 by Nelson Manfred Blake ( Book )
Thomas Wolfe; an introduction and interpretation by Richard Walser ( Book )
Three modes of modern Southern fiction: Ellen Glasgow, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe by C. Hugh Holman ( Book )
The window of memory : the literary career of Thomas Wolfe by Richard S Kennedy ( Book )
Thomas Wolfe; a collection of critical essays by Louis D Rubin ( Book )
Thomas Wolfe : three decades of criticism by Leslie A Field ( Book )
American moderns, from rebellion to conformity by Maxwell David Geismar ( Book )
Fifteen modern American authors; a survey of research and criticism by Jackson R Bryer ( Book )
American fiction, 1920-1940: John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Erskine Caldwell, James T. Farrell, John P. Marquand [and] John Steinbeck by Joseph Warren Beach ( Book )
Modern American fiction; essays in criticism by A. Walton Litz ( Book )
Violence in recent Southern fiction by Louise Y Gossett ( Book )
After the genteel tradition; American writers, 1910-1930 by Malcolm Cowley ( Book )
The roots of Southern writing; essays on the literature of the American South by C. Hugh Holman ( Book )

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Most widely held works by Thomas Wolfe

Look homeward, angel : a story of the buried life by Thomas Wolfe ( Book )
239 editions published between 1929 and 2006 in 4 languages and held by 7,910 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An elaborate and moving coming-of-age story about Eugene Gant, a restless and energetic character whose passion to experience life takes him from his small, rural hometown in North Carolina to Harvard University and the city of Boston. The novel's pattern is artfully simple--a small town, a large family, high school and college--yet the characters are monumental in their graphic individuality and personality

You can't go home again by Thomas Wolfe ( Book )
144 editions published between 1934 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 5,254 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This novel was published posthumously in 1940 after heavy editing by Edward Aswell. Like Wolfe's other works, it is largely autobiographical and provides a glimpse into life in the 1930s. As the sequel to 'The Web and the Rock' (1939), this book continues the story of the main character, George Webber. George has written a successful novel about his family and hometown. When he returns to that town he is shaken by the force of the outrage and hatred that greets him. Family and friends feel naked and exposed by the truths they have seen in his book, and their fury drives him from his home. He begins a search for his own identity that takes him to New York and a hectic social whirl; to Paris with an uninhibited group of expatriates; to Berlin, lying cold and sinister under Hitler's shadow. At last Webber returns to America and rediscovers it with love, sorrow, and hope

Of time and the river; a legend of man's hunger in his youth by Thomas Wolfe ( Book )
113 editions published between 1930 and 2008 in 4 languages and held by 4,311 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Continues the story of Eugene Gant

The web and the rock by Thomas Wolfe ( Book )
105 editions published between 1937 and 1999 in English and Undetermined and held by 3,835 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
George Webber, a man raised and schooled in the south, moves to New York City where he aspires to become a successful writer, but his ambition is sidetracked when he becomes tragically obsessed with the beautiful, wealthy, and married socialite Esther Jack

The hills beyond by Thomas Wolfe ( Book )
64 editions published between 1935 and 2000 in 3 languages and held by 2,436 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"The unfinished novel from which this collection of sketches, stories, and novellas takes its title was Wolfe's final effort. It tells the story of the Joyner family, Goerge Webber's maternal ancestors, in pre - Civil War North Carolina and illustrates Wolfe's fine sense of family traits rooted in a traceable past. "Chickamauga" is the superb Civil War tale that Wolfe received from his great-uncle; "The Lost Boy" renders a second, more tender treatment of the death of young Grover Gant; and "The Return of the Prodigal" describes Eugene Gant's imagined and then actual revisit to Altamont when he is a famous author."--BOOK JACKET

From death to morning by Thomas Wolfe ( Book )
51 editions published between 1932 and 1991 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,888 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
No door.--Death the proud brother.--The face of the war.--Only the dead know Brooklyn.--Dark in the forest, strange as time.--The four lost men.--Gulliver.--The bums at sunset.--One of the girls in our party.--The far and the near.--In the park.--The men of Old Catawba.--Circus at dawn.--The web of earth

A stone, a leaf, a door; poems by Thomas Wolfe ( Book )
37 editions published between 1941 and 1991 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,686 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The complete short stories of Thomas Wolfe by Thomas Wolfe ( Book )
14 editions published between 1987 and 2009 in English and held by 1,662 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
All the short fiction of the famous North Carolinian author

The face of a nation; poetical passages from the writings of Thomas Wolfe by Thomas Wolfe ( Book )
25 editions published between 1939 and 1971 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,237 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Firma de Mary A. Van Orsdell

The Thomas Wolfe reader by Thomas Wolfe ( Book )
6 editions published between 1962 and 1970 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,191 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Edited, with introduction and notes, by C. Hugh Holman

Short novels by Thomas Wolfe ( Book )
6 editions published in 1961 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,163 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The good child's river by Thomas Wolfe ( Book )
8 editions published between 1991 and 1994 in English and held by 1,128 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Tells of Esther Jack and her circle of friends in turn-of-the-century New York

O lost : a story of the buried life by Thomas Wolfe ( Book )
6 editions published between 2000 and 2001 in English and held by 1,099 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"The editing of Thomas Wolfe's first novel, originally titled "O Lost," has been the subject of literary argument since its 1929 publication in abridged form as Look Homeward, Angel. This powerful coming-of-age novel tells the rich story of Eugene Gant, a young North Carolina man who longs to escape the confines of his small-town life and his tumultuous family. At the insistence of Maxwell Perkins, the legendary editor at Charles Scribner's Sons, Wolfe cut the typescript by 22 percent. Sixty-six thousand words were omitted for reasons of propriety and publishing economics, as well as to remove material deemed expendable by Perkins. Published for the first time on October 3, 2000 - the centenary of Wolfe's birth - O Lost presents the complete text of the novel's manuscript." "For seventy years Wolfe scholars have speculated about the merits of the unpublished complete work and about the editorial process - particularly the reputed collaboration of Perkins and Wolfe. In order to present this classic novel in its original form as Wolfe wrote it, Arlyn and Matthew J. Bruccoli have established the text from the carbon copy of the typescript and from Wolfe's pencil manuscript. In addition to restoring passages omitted from Look Homeward, Angel, the editors have corrected errors introduced by the typist and other mistakes in the original text and have explicated problematic readings. An introduction and appendices - including textual, bibliographical, and explanatory notes - reconstruct Wolfe's process of creation and place it in the context of the publishing process."--Jacket

The lost boy : a novella by Thomas Wolfe ( Book )
7 editions published between 1992 and 1994 in English and held by 948 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Told from four perspectives, each articulating the sentiments of a different family member, the story captures the experiences of growing up in a mountain town of North Carolina at the turn of the century

The party at Jack's by Thomas Wolfe ( Book )
6 editions published in 1995 in English and held by 776 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In the summer of 1937, Thomas Wolfe was in the North Carolina mountains revising a piece about a party and subsequent fire at the Park Avenue penthouse apartment of the fictional Esther and Frederick Jack. He wrote to his agent, Elizabeth Nowell, "I think it is now a single thing, as much a single thing as anything I've ever written." Wolfe's novella affords a significant glimpse of a Depression era New York inhabited by Wall Street wheelers and dealers and the theatrical and artistic elite. Wolfe describes the Jacks and their social circle with lavish attention to mannerisms, clothing, furnishings, and other trappings of wealth and privilege, and he spreads before readers a table groaning with sumptuous food. The sharply drawn contrast between the decadence of the party-goers and the struggles of the working classes in the streets below reveals Wolfe's gifts as both a writer and a sharp social critic

The mountains; a play in one act. The mountains; a drama in three acts and a prologue by Thomas Wolfe ( Book )
16 editions published between 1970 and 1991 in English and held by 756 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A western journal; a daily log of the great parks trip, June 20-July 2, 1938 by Thomas Wolfe ( Book )
18 editions published between 1939 and 1980 in English and Undetermined and held by 693 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Welcome to our city : a play in ten scenes by Thomas Wolfe ( Book )
7 editions published between 1983 and 1991 in English and held by 693 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The portable Thomas Wolfe by Thomas Wolfe ( Book )
17 editions published between 1946 and 1950 in English and held by 614 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Mannerhouse : a play in a prologue and three acts by Thomas Wolfe ( Book )
18 editions published between 1948 and 1991 in English and Undetermined and held by 547 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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