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One of the most enduring characters in Thomas Wolfe''s fiction is Francis Starwick, the Midwestern aesthete who befriends Eugene Grant at Harvard in Wolfe''s second autobiographical novel, Of Time and the River. Wolfe created Starwick in order to provide a foil for the artistic development of Eugene: Starwick was the pretentious, narrow-minded dilettante whose response to the arts is all talk and pose, as compared with Eugene, who hopes to express in writing his intensity of feeling about all aspects of life. While writing the novel, however, Wolfe found his manuscript proliferating beyond his control, and he turned to his editor at Scribner''s Maxwell Perkins, for help in shaping the final version of the book. In the process of organizing the massive manuscript for publication, Perkins deleted some of the analyses of Starwick''s behavior and several of the episodes involving Eugene and Starwick. The result was that the relationship between the two young men was not as fully developed as Wolfe had originally planned. Richard S. Kennedy discovered these excised passages among the Wolfe papers at Harvard University''s Houghton Library. In The Starwick Episodes has arranged them sequentially and indicated their position in the original manuscript. In one of them Starwick introduces Eugene to Joyce''s Ulysses, and in another he takes him to view the paintings in Boston'' Museum of Fine Arts. Additional scenes find the two exploring the lower depths of Paris until at length their true sexual natures are revealed in a visit to a Parisian brothel. Kennedy''s research also uncovered the story of the life of Kenneth Raisbeck, the young man whom Wolfe used as the starting point for his fictional creation of Starwick. In his Introduction, Kennedy describes Raisbeck''s career, both its brilliant promise and its tragic end, and his similarity to the character in the novel. The presence of Starwick in Of Time and the River is unforgettable despite the omission of some important scenes that Wolfe wrote for him. With the publication now of the deleted episodes, readers may gain an enriched sense of Wolfe''s fascinating creation and a fuller understanding of what he was trying to convey.

My Other Loneliness: Letters of Thomas Wolfe and Aline Bernstein

The early 20th century American novelist Thomas Wolfe produced highly original, poetic, rhapsodic and impressionistic prose, framed in the guise of autobiographical writing. His novels vividly reflect on 1930’s American culture and the mores of that period, filtered through a sensitive and hyper-analytical perspective. His first novel, ‘Look Homeward, Angel’, is now widely regarded as an American classic, characterised for its intense consciousness of scene and place, combined with an extraordinary lyric power. Wolfe imbues his life story with a lofty romantic quality, employing epic overtones. After Wolfe''s untimely death at the age of thirty-seven, William Faulkner described him as “the greatest talent of his generation”. This eBook presents Wolfe’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Wolfe’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major texts * All the published novels, with individual contents tables * Features rare stories and poems * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the stories * The complete plays, with rare dramas appearing here for the first time, including both versions of ‘The Mountains’ * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Includes Wolfe’s memoirs and essays * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please note: a few posthumous works published many years after Wolfe’s death cannot appear due to copyright restrictions. When new texts become available, they will be added to the eBook as a free update. CONTENTS: The Novels Look Homeward, Angel (1929) Of Time and the River (1935) The Web and the Rock (1939) You Can’t Go Home Again (1940) The Hills Beyond (1941) The Shorter Fiction From Death to Morning (1935) Stories from ‘The Hills Beyond’ (1941) Miscellaneous Short Stories The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order The Plays Deferred Payment (1919) The Streets of Durham (1919) Concerning Honest Bob (1920) The Return of Buck Gavin (1924) The Third Night (1938) Mannerhouse (1948) The Mountains: A Play in One Act (1970) The Mountains: A Drama in Three Acts and a Prologue (1970) The Poetry Collected Poems The Non-Fiction Miscellaneous Prose The Memoirs The Story of a Novel (1935) A Western Journal (1939) Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

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For the last eight years of his life, Thomas Wolfe worked periodically on a series of chapters that were part of a huge work-in-progress. The work was based loosely on the early life of New York stage and costume designer Aline Bernstein, with whom Wolfe

This eBook edition of "You Can''t Go Home Again" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. George Webber has written a successful novel about his family and hometown. When he returns to that town, he is shaken by the force of outrage and hatred that greets him. Family and lifelong friends feel naked and exposed by what they have seen in his books, and their fury drives him from his home. Outcast, George Webber begins a search for his own identity. It 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.

Neuübersetzung Ein amerikanisches Epos, das seinesgleichen sucht – eine hymnische Daseinsfeier und das faszinierende Bekenntnis einer überschwänglichen, allumspannenden Künstlerseele. Thomas Wolfes «Von Zeit und Fluss» ist ein Herzensbuch für alle Suchenden und Sehnenden, ob jung oder alt, eine Meditation über die Geschicke des Menschenlebens – über Bestand und Unbestand, Endlichkeit und Dauer. Eugene, lebenshungrig und unerfahren, ist auf der Suche nach sich selbst, nach seinem Bestimmungsort in der Welt. In Harvard und im New York der Zwanzigerjahre sammelt er erste Erfahrungen, lernt zu lieben, zu erkennen, zu denken, sich von falschen Vorbildern loszusagen und sich dabei selbst treu zu bleiben. Bloß keine Erstarrung in Routinen – alles in seiner reifenden Seele ist noch im Werden, in permanenter Umgestaltung. Der Held macht sich auf nach Paris, doch auch an diesem Sehnsuchtsort lässt ihn sein abenteuerliches Herz keine Ruhe finden. Was Eugene antreibt und was er sich über alle Wechselfälle des Lebens hinweg erhält, ist der Hunger nach Erkenntnis und sinnlichem Genuss. So folgen aus seiner Selbstsuche philosophisch und spirituell höchst anregende Refl exionen über das menschliche Dasein – über Sein und Werden, Zeit und Fluss.

La primera novela Thomas Wolfe, legendario exponente de gótico sureño y de la generación perdida. En esta novela autobiográfica, Thomas Wolfe cuenta la historia de Eugene Gant, quien crece en el siglo XX en un pueblecito de Estados Unidos, con un padre alcohólico y en medio de una familia disfuncional. A la vez un extraño en su propia tierra y un apasionado observador de la vida norteamericana, Eugene pasa por el desasosiego y la tragedia familiar hasta entender que debe dejar atrás su hogar si quiere forjar su propio camino en el mundo. La crónica de su despertar erótico, de sus descubrimientos estéticos, de su afianzamiento identitario y de sus viajes por Estados Unidos y por Europa acaba creando una polifónica novela de educación que ha sido comparado con obras como El retrato del artista adolescente de James Joyce y Absalón, Absalón de William Faulkner.

Thomas Wolfe é, junto com F. Scott Fitzgerald e William Faulkner, um dos maiores escritores da moderna literatura norte-americana. Este conjunto de narrativas inéditas em português é uma amostra eloqüente do estilo de Wolfe e faz o leitor entrar em contato com uma das mais férteis produções literárias deste século.

Dies ist ein Erstlingsbuch, und der Verfasser beschreibt darin ein Geschehen, das, fremd und fern nun, einst seines eignen Lebens Anteil war. Sollte aus diesem Grund ein Leser behaupten, dies Buch sei autobiographisch, dann hat der Verfasser nichts zu entgegnen: – ihm scheint, daß alle ernsthafte Romanliteratur autobiographisch ist, daß man sich zum Beispiel schwerlich ein autobiographischeres Buch als »Gullivers Reisen« vorstellen kann. (Zitat aus der Vorrede des Autors) Thomas Wolfes berühmter Roman "Schau heimwärts, Engel!" erschien erstmals 1929 und zählt zu den wichtigsten und einflussreichsten Werken der amerikanischen Literatur. Hier wird der zeitlose Klassiker ungekürzt in der vielgelesenen Übersetzung von Schiebelhuth frisch aufgelegt. Thomas Wolfe. Schau heimwärts, Engel! Eine Geschichte vom begrabnen Leben. Übersetzt von Hans Schiebelhuth. Erstdruck des Originals: Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life, Charles Scribner''s Sons, New York City, 1929. Erstdruck der Übersetzung von Hans Schiebelhuth: Rowohlt Verlag, Berlin 1932. Durchgesehener Neusatz, der Text dieser Ausgabe folgt: Rowohlt Verlag, Hamburg 1954. Vollständige Neuausgabe, LIWI Verlag, Göttingen 2021. LIWI Literatur- und Wissenschaftsverlag

"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.