In this 1929 work, Eugene Gant is Thomas Wolfe's literary alter ego
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Looking Homeward To Thomas Wolfe; An Uncut Version of His First ...  Oct 2, 2000 ... In 1929 Thomas Wolfe, big, bombastic and unkempt, strode into the literary ... was about Eugene Gant, Wolfe's alter ego, and his self-dramatizing relatives ... and his work, if read at all, is usually the domain of college curriculums. ... ''Perkins was the greatest discoverer of literary talent in America,'' he said.
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Thomas Wolfe - Rusc  Thomas Wolfe was an enormously popular novelist during the middle of this century. His highly literary and sentimental style has dated him somewhat, and he is ... In 1929 he wrote the famous novel 'Look Homeward, Angel,' in which Eugene ... Gant's story in 'Of Time And The River' (1935), and invented a new alter ego,...
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Thomas Wolfe - Author, Playwright - Biography.com  Apr 2, 2014 ... Although Thomas Wolfe had a short life, he left behind a varied and widely ... It was there that he wrote his most popular work, Look Homeward, Angel (1929), an autobiographical piece centering on his alter ego, Eugene Gant. ... in October 1929 to great critical reception, placing Wolfe on the literary map as...
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Thomas Wolfe - Wikipedia  Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900  September 15, 1938) was an American novelist of the early twentieth century. Wolfe wrote four lengthy novels, plus many short stories, dramatic works, and .... His family's surname became Gant, and Wolfe called himself Eugene, his father Oliver, and his mother Eliza. The original...
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Look Homeward, Angel - Wikipedia  Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life is a 1929 novel by Thomas Wolfe. It is Wolfe's first novel, and is considered a highly autobiographical American coming-of-age story. The character of Eugene Gant is generally believed to be a depiction of Wolfe himself. ... Playwright Ketti Frings wrote a theatrical adaptation of Wolfe's work in a 1957...
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Babbitt (novel) - Wikipedia  Babbitt, first published in 1922, is a novel by Sinclair Lewis. Largely a satire of American culture ... At the same time, growing Midwestern cities, usually associated with mass production and ... While conducting research for Babbitt, Lewis kept detailed journals, in which he drafted long biographies for each of his characters.
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Download new york magazine.3gp .mp4 | codedfilm  In a New York magazine article, Tom Wolfe gave the '70s this egotistical name # Quiz # Question. Duration: Thumbnail. Once style editor for the New York Times...
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HUX 553 - KEY INDIVIDUALS, LITERATURE: HEMINGWAY and ...  Indeed, Hemingway once told another writer that his own books might better ... Ernest came to know and whom he was to depict in some of his early stories. ... The style was a method of using deceptively simple language in order to ... Also in 1926 he published The Torrents of Spring, which was intended to be a parody and...
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Elmer Gantry - NY1A  Names, Lewis, Sinclair. ... Annotation, A brazen ex-football player enters the ministry and, through his charisma, his ... This carefully researched novel, published in 1927, created a scandal by its attack on ... LC Subject, Evangelists - Fiction.
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The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky  Page 13  November 14, 1992 ... It wasn't until the late 19th Century that technological advances enabled the ... A REVIEW BY MICHAEL HARRIS The Lost Boy By Thomas Wolfe University of North ... of the Gant family saga that began with Look Homeward, Angel. ... magazine in 1937, but this is the first publication of the full novella.
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NC Historic Sites - Thomas Wolfe Memorial - Biography of Thomas ...  Oct 5, 2015 ... During his brief but eventful life, Thomas Wolfe traveled the length ... This experiment with autobiographical writing, however, .... On his 29th birthday (October 3, 1929), Tom received the first copy of his first published novel.
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Players on Unbroken Spinets: Thomas Wolfe and James Boswell  -Thomas Wolfe, Of Time and the River side from both being writers, Thomas Wolfe and James .... of life, that swarming, million-footed, tower-masted, and sky- soaring citadel that bears the magic name of the Island of Manhattan? ... Signifi- cantly, Boswell often described his Life of Johnson as having been written "in scenes.
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Sinclair Lewis Biography - CliffsNotes  "Sinclair Lewis, 1885-1951 Author of Main Street" The above is the ... His first novel, Hike and the Aeroplane, published under the pseudonym of "Tom Graham," ... Other successful volumes followed: Babbitt (1922); Arrowsmith (1925); Elmer Gantry (1927); The Man Who Knew Coolidge (1928); and Dodsworth (1929). Lewis...
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Thomas Wolfe - Wikipedia  Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900  September 15, 1938) was an American novelist of the early twentieth century. Wolfe wrote four lengthy novels, plus many short stories, dramatic works, and ... Wolfe's influence extends to the writings of beat generation writer Jack Kerouac, and of authors Ray Bradbury and Philip...
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Thomas Wolfe's 'Angel' of Death - The New York Times  May 1, 2009 ... They said he was 49  sickness made him look old. ... Wodehouse precedes Wolfe in using the word phthisis in fiction. ... Whenever I am in the United States, I can see that avenging thing while sitting on the veranda drinking morning coffee. ... But the Confederacy is still alive and well there not unlike the...
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William Faulkner: Major Novels - University of Michigan  William Faulkner. Sartoris. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1929. ... in his control of language, and in the highly original organization of his material. ... into a stream-of-consciousness novel with four characters each telling his version of ... Between the time he finished Flags in the Dust in September 1927 and the...
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Thomas Wolfe: Quotes, Early Life, Career, Death, Afterward, Critical ...  Unwrap a complete list of books by Thomas Wolfe and find books available for swap. ... lengthy novels, plus many short stories, dramatic works and novel fragments. ... His books, written and published during the 1920s and 1930s, reflect vividly ... Faulkner said that Wolfe was their generation's best writer; Wolfe's influence...
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Wichita Public Library / Catalog / First Chapter or Excerpt  In February, 1863, he first used the pseudonym Mark Twain as the signature ... was followed by a satirical novel,The Gilded Age (1873), Tom Sawyer (1876), ..... No, you just pick out a relative and bang away, and you are sure to get him. ..... Clemens based the character of Colonel Sellers on the personality of his mother's...
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Common Questions - Thomas Wolfe Society  ... 1900-1938 (for more detailed biographical info, check out the Thomas Wolfe ... A: Thomas Wolfe is most known for the top four novels listed below. ... Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life (New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929) .... I devoured and redevoured four to five times all of Wolfe's published works.
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Look Homeward, Angel  For the play adapted by Ketti Frings, see Look Homeward, Angel (play). ... Angel: A Story of the Buried Life is a 1929 novel by Thomas Wolfe. ... Thomas Wolfe's father, William Oliver Wolfe, ordered an angel statue from ... run by Eugene Gant's mother, based on one run by Wolfe's mother, has been ... Musical adaptation.
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Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 8, Ralph Ellison  When Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison's first novel, received the National Book Award for 1953, the ... His visit ended in Paris where for a very few weeks he mingled with the American ... Let me say right now that my book is not an autobiographical work. ... Perhaps, though, this thing cuts both ways: the Negro novelist draws his...