The Magical Campus

University of North Carolina Writings, 1917-1920

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Author:

Wolfe, Thomas

Editor:

Bruccoli, Matthew J.
Magi, Aldo P.

Foreword by:

Conroy, Pat

ISBN:

978-1-57003-734-4

Publication Date:

Jun 2008

Publisher:

University of South Carolina Press

Book Format:

Hardback

List Price:

USD $24.99USD $24.99

Book Description:

Collects Thomas Wolfe's earliest published works - including poems, plays, short fiction, news articles, speeches, and essays - both signed and unsigned, assembled in chronological order. This work includes poems ""A Field in Flanders"", and ""The Challenge,"". It also features his folk plays, such as ""The Return of Buck Gavin"" and ""Deferred Payment"".

Book Details

Pages:	160
Detailed Subjects:	Literary Criticism / American / General Fiction / Anthologies (Multiple Authors)
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):	6.54 x 9.03 x 0.69 Inches
Book Weight:	0.9 Pounds

Author Biography

Wolfe, Thomas (Author)

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. He also wrote short stories that were collected in The Hills Beyond and From Death to Morning. He wrote several plays including Welcome to Our City.

From an early bout with pneumonia, he suffered from tuberculosis of the lungs, which led to fatal tuberculosis of the brain. He died following brain surgery on September 15, 1938 at age 37.

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