Of Time And The River - A Legend of Man's Hunger In His Youth
by Thomas Wolfe
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- The book is in very good condition with a fine dust jacket. It is solid, the text is clear and bright, no yellowing, tan board/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0684106809
- ISBN 13
- 9780684106809
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About This Item
It is a fictionalized autobiography, using the name Eugene Gant for Wolfe's, detailing the protagonist's early and mid-twenties, during which time the character attends Harvard University, moves to New York City and teaches English at a university there, and travels overseas with the character Francis Starwick. Francis Starwick was based on Wolfe's friend, playwright Kenneth Raisbeck. The novel was published by Scribners and edited by Maxwell Perkins.
The narrative of Of Time and the River closely follows the events of Wolfe's own life from 1920 to 1925. The novel, which ran to 912 pages in its first edition, is divided into eight books, the titles of which are borrowed from myths and legends that provide insight into the various stages of Eugene's pilgrimage. When the story opens, Eugene is preparing to board a northbound train that will take him from his hometown of Altamont, Catawba (modeled after Wolfe's hometown of Asheville, North Carolina) to Harvard University, where he intends to study writing in a graduate program. Along the way, Eugene stops to visit his dying father in a Baltimore hospital; Wolfe's account of Old Gant's traumatic death from cancer later in the novel is considered one of the work's most powerful scenes. After three years at Harvard, Eugene returns to Altamont for a summer, awaiting news from a Broadway producer to whom he has submitted one of his plays.
This book is difficult to assert its history, this is what I was able tofind from the lIbrary of Congress.
Description 7 p. l., 3-912 p. 22 cm. LC classification S3545.O337 O4 1935 LC copy PS3545.O337 O4 1935 Copy 3 Copy 3. Dust jacket. Purchase, Sept. 16, 1943 (DLC #3773B26).
PS3545.O337 O4 1935 Copy 4.
PS3545.O337 O4 1935 Copy 7 Copy 7. Dust jacket. Gift of Herman Finkelstein, Dec. 30, 1980.
Related names
Herman Finkelstein Collection (Library of Congress). DLC
Subjects
Young men--United States--Fiction.
Form/Genre
Autobiographical fiction.
Bildungsromane.
Notes
"First printing, February, 1935 ... third printing, March, 1935."
Synopsis
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. In a massive, ambitious, and boldly passionate novel, Wolfe examines the passing of time and the nature of the creative process, as Gant slowly but ecstatically embraces the urban life, recognizing it as a necessary ordeal for the birth of his creative genius as a writer. The work of an exceptionally expressive writer of fertile imagination and startling emotional intensity, Of Time and the River illuminates universal truths about art and life, city and country, past and present. It is a novel that is majestic and enduring. As P. M. Jack observed in The New York Times, "It is a triumphant demonstration that Thomas Wolfe has the stamina to produce a magnificent epic of American life."
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- Title
- Of Time And The River - A Legend of Man's Hunger In His Youth
- Author
- Thomas Wolfe
- Book Condition
- Used - The book is in very good condition with a fine dust jacket. It is solid, the text is clear and bright, no yellowing, tan board
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Scriner's and Sons. New York 1935. Library of congress has
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0684106809
- ISBN 13
- 9780684106809
- Publisher
- Scriner's and Sons.New York
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1935
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