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When you read his books, his words read like poetry. I've often referred to him as a poet-novelist. But he has his many detractors for his very long sentences. I was always a bit puzzled by the level of distaste. But now I have read, "Of Time and the River," and better understand the fury.
- Hardcover
- Thomas Wolfe
The sequel to Thomas Wolfe's remarkable first novel, Look Homeward, Angel, Of Time and the River is one of the great classics of American literature. The book chronicles the maturing of Wolfe's autobiographical character, Eugene Gant, in his desperate search for fulfillment, making his way from small-town North Carolina to the wider world of Harvard University, New York City, and Europe.
- Thomas Wolfe
Editions for Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth: 0684867850 (Hardcover published in 1999), 1772467189 (Kindle Edition published...
The book chronicles the maturing of Wolfe's autobiographical character, Eugene Gant, in his desperate search for fulfillment, making his way from small-town North Carolina to the wider world of Harvard University, New York City, and Europe.
Eventually, his restless despair and obsessive hunger for life drives him to leave America for Europe, in search of the place 'where the weary of wandering can find peace, where the tumult, the fever and the fret shall be forever stilled.'
Of Time and the River (1935) Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) “Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man’s Hunger in His Youth, -autobiographical novel by semi Thomas Wolfe, published in 1935 as a sequel to Look Homeward, An [1929]. Eugene Gant leaves his gel Southern home for graduate work at Harvard, where the scope of his immense romantic appetite for
3 de jul. de 2022 · Of Time and the River is an autobiographical novel, the continuation of the story of Eugene Gant, detailing his early and mid-twenties. During that time Eugene attends Harvard University, moves to New York City, teaches English at a university there, and travels overseas with his friend Francis Starwick.
- Thomas Wolfe
