New Releases by Thomas Wolfe

Beyond Love and Loyalty: The Letters of Thomas Wolfe and Elizabeth Nowell, Together with ''no More Rivers, '' a Story By Thomas Wolf

My Other Loneliness: Letters of Thomas Wolfe and Aline Bernstein

"The story of a novel"--Part one of this book - is a candid telling of how Wolfe became a writer and how he wrote and published his first novel. "Writing and living" - the second part of this book - is a testament to Wolfe''s newly awakened social conscience.

"The Mountains, a product of Wolfe''s dramatic apprenticeship, constitutes the novelist''s earliest achieved writing on a large scale. Begun while he was still in Chapel Hill, the one-act version was completed and performed in Cambridge in 1921, the reshaped into full-length form late [by early spring 1922]. Though neither play was successful, both served as valuable exercises toward the author''s eventual ripening as a writer of fiction, and the longer on represents a major evolutionary step for the man who would one day write Look homeward, angel."--Dust jacket

The Hills Beyond, the third and last book culled from the mountain of manuscript left behind by Thomas Wolfe, "contains some of his best, and certainly his most mature, work" (New York Times Book Review). The unfinished novel from which this collection of sketches, stories, and novellas takes its tide was Wolfe''s final effort. It tells the story of the Joyner family, George 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. Together the eleven pieces of The Hills Beyond confirm the passion, energy, and sensitivity that made Wolfe the most promising American writer of his generation. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

"Poetic passages from Wolfe''s prose, printed as free verse".

Selections from the novels of Thomas Wolfe chosen for their poetic character.

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.