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You Can’t Go Home Again, novel by Thomas Wolfe, published posthumously in 1940 after heavy editing by Edward Aswell. This novel, like Wolfe’s other works, is largely autobiographical, reflecting details of his life in the 1930s. As the sequel to The Web and the Rock (1939), You Can’t Go Home Again.
Thomas Wolfe was a writer of enormous energy and imaginative force, marked by a richly rhetorical style and powerful command of language. The subject of the bulk of his writing was his own experience as an American. He was in the tradition of Walt Whitman, attempting through the record of himself to explain and define what it meant to be an ...
Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938) was born in Asheville, North Carolina, and educated at the University of North Carolina and Harvard University. He taught English at New York University and traveled extensively in Europe and America.
Open Preview. You Can't Go Home Again Quotes Showing 1-30 of 49. “Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”. ― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again. 2958 likes. Like. “I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.”. ― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again.
Thomas Wolfe. 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 Bildungsroman. The character of Eugene Gant is generally believed to be a depiction of Wolfe himself. The novel covers the span of time from Gant's birth to the age of 19.
About Thomas Wolfe. Find out the facts about Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) here. We’ll share both a short and long chronology of famous events in Wolfe’s life, along with a short and longer online Wolfe biography, a bibliography of Wolfe’s works, a bibliography of works about him, famous Wolfe quotes, images of places associated with Wolfe ...
Aug 5, 1998 · Thomas Wolfe was born in Asheville, North Carolina on October 3, 1900. He graduated from the University of North Carolina and Harvard University. He taught at New York University from 1924 to 1930. His four long autobiographical novels are Look Homeward, Angel; Of Time and the River; The Web and the Rock; and You Can't Go Home Again.
