The Greatest Works of Thomas Wolfe (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Look Homeward, Angel, Of Time and the River & You Can't Go Home AgainBy Thomas Wolfe
Length99h 59m
About this audiobook
The Greatest Works of Thomas Wolfe gathers the major achievements of one of American modernism's most prodigious voices, showcasing fiction that transforms autobiography into vast, lyrical myth. Across novels such as Look Homeward, Angel, Of Time and the River, The Web and the Rock, and You Can't Go Home Again, Wolfe renders family, ambition, exile, memory, and the restless promise of America in torrential prose. His style is expansive, incantatory, and emotionally charged, standing between Whitmanian abundance and the psychological depth of twentieth-century fiction. Born in Asheville, North Carolina, in 1900, Wolfe drew deeply on his own life: his Southern childhood, Harvard education, teaching years, travels in Europe, and fraught literary relationship with editor Maxwell Perkins. His fiction repeatedly returns to the artist's struggle to escape origins while remaining haunted by them. Wolfe's immense sensitivity to place, speech, and longing gave his work both its autobiographical intensity and its national resonance. This collection is recommended for readers who value ambitious, richly textured prose and the grand American novel in its most passionate form. It is essential for students of modern American literature and for anyone drawn to books that treat personal memory as epic destiny.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length99 hrs 59 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 18, 2018
LanguageEnglish
More from Thomas Wolfe
Schau heimwärts, Engel! (Kommentiert)Thomas Wolfe26h 31m$2 · $0.00
You Can't Go Home Again (Annotated)Thomas Wolfe30h 34m$2 · $0.00
Von Zeit und Strom (Kommentiert)Thomas Wolfe50h 40m$1 · $0.00
Gesammelte Werke: Romane + Erzählungen + Essays (Kommentiert)Thomas Wolfe87h 45m$1 · $0.00
Of Time and the River (Annotated)Thomas Wolfe46h 3m$2 · $0.00
Look Homeward, AngelThomas Wolfe26h 41m$2 · $0.00
Thomas Wolfe: Of Time and the River, You Can't Go Home Again & Look Homeward, AngelThomas Wolfe100h 6m$2 · $0.00
Mira hacia casa, Ángel!Thomas Wolfe26h 32m$2 · $0.00
Look Homeward, AngelThomas Wolfe$1 · $0.00
Look Homeward, Angel & Of Time and the RiverThomas Wolfe70h 6m$2 · $0.00
OF TIME AND THE RIVERThomas Wolfe46h 4m$1 · $0.00
Vom Tod zum Morgen (Kommentiert)Thomas Wolfe13h 28m$1 · $0.00
Schau heimwärts, Engel!Thomas Wolfe26h 24m$1 · $0.00
Look Homeward, Angel & Of Time and the River (Annotated)Thomas Wolfe71h 3m$2 · $0.00
Look Homeward, AngelThomas Wolfe25h 21m$2 · $0.00
Thomas Wolfe: Collected WorksThomas Wolfe99h 8m$2 · $0.00
Vom Tod zum MorgenThomas Wolfe13h 11m$2 · $0.00
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Annotated)William Shakespeare157h 18m$2 · $0.00
C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis38h 55m$30
The Jeeves and Wooster Stories: The Complete Collection (33 Books)P. G. Wodehouse21h 57m$15 · $0.00
The Gulag Archipelago Volume 3Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn21h 56m$46 · $0.00
Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate CollectionArthur Conan Doyle59h 49m$5 · $0.00
The Complete Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Novels, Short Stories and Autobiographical WritingsFyodor Dostoyevsky270h 59m$2 · $0.00
The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America (Annotated)Howard Irving Chapelle, Tappan Adney13h 10m$2 · $0.00
Charles Dickens: Complete Works (Annotated)Charles Dickens819h 4m$2 · $0.00
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen & Brontë Sisters (Annotated)Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë203h 52m$2 · $0.00
The Complete Works: Charlotte, Emily, Anne, Patrick & Branwell BrontëCharlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, Emily Brontë138h 12m$1 · $0.00
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Annotated)Oscar Wilde126h 19m$2 · $0.00
L. M. Montgomery – Premium Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry & MemoirsLucy Maud Montgomery155h 1m$2 · $0.00
The Complete Works of the Brontë Family Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë140h 13m$2 · $0.00
MARK TWAIN: 12 Novels, 195 Short Stories, Autobiography, 10 Travel Books, 160+ Essays & Speeches (Illustrated)Mark Twain415h 9m5.0 (2)$2 · $0.00
This Side of Paradise - The Original 1920 Edition (Annotated)F. Scott Fitzgerald11h 30m$2 · $0.00
The Great Gatsby: Original 1925 Edition (An F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic NovelFrancis Scott Fitzgerald4h 45m$18 · $0.00
Ivanhoe (Annotated)Walter Scott22h 52m$2 · $0.00
All NovelsGeorge Orwell53h 48m$10 · $0.00
The Complete Works of TolstoyLeo Tolstoy412h 44m$1 · $0.00
The Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Annotated)Louisa May Alcott226h 24m$2 · $0.00
Under His ProtectionB. Love5h 7m$15
Heart of IronC. M. Alongi15h 24m$30
Ethic IIAshley Antoinette9h 1m$20
RiversnowTess Thompson8h 11m$20
Supreme ClienteleAshley & JaQuavis8h 58m$20
Body Refinement in a Beast Tamer’s World, Book 1Seth Ring14h 7m$27
EmberJeffrey Wilson, Brian Andrews13h 58m$23
The Complete Works of Jane Austen (Unabridged)Jane Austen88h 8m5.0 (1)$1 · $0.00
Desperate MeasuresBrenda Jackson8h 59m5.0 (1)$28 · $0.00
Searching For ThanksgivingS.E. Smith4h 24m$20
Naughty 4Brenda Hampton7h 30m$17
The Dance with Me TrilogyShelley Shepard Gray21h 44m$35
Anne Shirley (Complete 14 Book Collection)Lucy Maud Montgomery125h 28m$2 · $0.00
The DopemanJaQuavis Coleman5h 25m$20
Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate CollectionArthur Conan Doyle59h 49m$5 · $0.00
WhistlerAnn Patchett10h 45m4.4 (20)$29 · $0.00
Grand Opening 2Carl Weber9h 16m$20
Sons of Valor II: Violence of ActionBrian Andrews, Jeffrey Wilson12h 34m$23
Malevolent MagicMildred Abbott7h 13m$17
Bikes, Toys, and Hot BoyzGenesis Woods, Shantaé13h 9m$23
You may also like
The Complete Novels of Virginia Woolf (9 Unabridged Novels)Virginia Woolf89h 6m$2 · $0.00
Thomas Wolfe: Of Time and the River, You Can't Go Home Again & Look Homeward, AngelThomas Wolfe100h 6m$2 · $0.00
OF TIME AND THE RIVERThomas Wolfe46h 4m$1 · $0.00
Of Time and the RiverThomas Wolfe42h 57m$2.30
The Voyage OutVirginia Woolf13h 24m$25
My Heart And My FleshElizabeth Madox Roberts8h 3m$2.30
Look Homeward, Angel & Of Time and the River (Annotated)Thomas Wolfe71h 3m$2 · $0.00
Jacob's RoomVirginia Woolf6h 13m$1.80 · $0.00
The voyage outVirginia Woolf15h 6m$4 · $0.00
Of Time and the River (Annotated)Thomas Wolfe46h 3m$2 · $0.00
The Lost GirlD. H. Lawrence15h 45m$2.30
Look Homeward, AngelThomas Wolfe25h 15m$40
The Favorite GameLeonard Cohen7h 45m$20 · $0.00
Living to Tell the TaleGabriel García Márquez21h 3m$30
Triumph of the Egg & Other Stories (Annotated)Sherwood Anderson7h 36m$2 · $0.00
Jacob's RoomVirgina Woolf5h 38m$18 · $0.00
The Emily Star CollectionLucy Maud Montgomery34h 49m$2 · $0.00
Virginia Woolf: Jacob's Room, Night and Day, The Voyage Out & Monday or TuesdayVirginia Woolf42h 56m$1 · $0.00
Look Homeward, AngelThomas Wolfe26h 41m$2 · $0.00
Jacob's roomVirginia Woolf6h 16m$4 · $0.00