Wolfe, Thomas

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

The story of an American artist who flees scandal, bitterness, and despair as he journeys from his family home in a small Southern town to the gaudy capitals of prewar Europe.

A longer version of Thomas Wolfe's story of family and nation set during WWI, covering American history through the characters of Presidents Garfield, Arthur, Harrison, and Hayes, in an assessment of the mood of a nation and themes of untapped American potential during the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction eras.

The story of an American artist who flees scandal, bitterness, and despair as he journeys from his family home in a small Southern town to the gaudy capitals of prewar Europe.

Literary Masterpieces is one series of the trio that makes up the Gale Study Guides to Great Literature (the others are Literary Topics and Literary Masters). Each Literary Masterpieces volume chooses a book by one of the authors covered in Literary Masters and offers a discussion of themes, characters, comparisons with social events of the era when the book was written and a critical analysis. Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life, was published in 1929, and was Thomas Wolfe's first book. The novel recounts the physical, mental, and emotional life of Eugene Gant, the autobiographical protagonist, through the first twenty years of his life.