Wolfe, Thomas

Describes the coming of age of Eugene Gant, his boyhood in North Carolina and his growing passion to experience life.

Restores the missing text of Thomas Wolfe's novel "O Lost," which was hitherto published as the abridged "Look Homeward, Angel." Includes an introduction by scholar Matthew J. Bruccoli and textual, bibliographical, and explanatory notes.

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.

Follows Eugene Grant in his desperate search for fulfillment from rural North Carolina, through England and France, to his ultimate return home.

A collection of eleven sketches, stories, and novellas by Thomas Wolfe.