Thomas Wolfe: Collected Works
Collected American Modernist Fiction and Autobiographical Prose of Family, Identity, Ambition, and the Search for HomeBy Thomas Wolfe
Length96h 23m
About this audiobook
Thomas Wolfe: Collected Works gathers the major writings of one of American literature's most expansive and distinctive voices. Across novels, shorter fiction, dramatic fragments, and autobiographical passages, Wolfe explores memory, exile, ambition, family, and the irretrievable passage of time. His characteristic style—lyrical, rhythmically incantatory, and richly accumulative—transforms personal experience into a sweeping meditation on American identity and the individual's search for belonging. The collection places such works as Look Homeward, Angel, Of Time and the River, The Web and the Rock, and You Can't Go Home Again within the broader movement of modernist prose, while also revealing the tensions between artistic excess, formal experimentation, and narrative control. Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938) emerged from Asheville, North Carolina, and drew profoundly on the landscapes, family conflicts, and social world of his Southern upbringing. His early training in drama at Harvard helped shape his expansive sense of scene, voice, and performance, while his later collaboration with editor Maxwell Perkins influenced the monumental form of his fiction. Wolfe's short life and persistent awareness of mortality intensified his preoccupation with remembrance, departure, and the impossibility of returning home unchanged. This volume is especially rewarding for readers interested in American modernism, autobiographical fiction, and the development of the twentieth-century novel. It offers both an introduction to Wolfe's grand imaginative project and an opportunity to study the recurring images, verbal cadences, and evolving perspectives that unify his writing. Readers prepared to embrace its abundance will find a work of emotional intensity, historical significance, and enduring literary power.
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Rating★★★★ 4.1 (102)
Includes Goodreads
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length96 hrs 23 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 11, 2023
LanguageEnglish
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