Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Wolfe

by Thomas Wolfe, Delphi Classics (Editor)

The early 20th century American novelist Thomas Wolfe produced highly original, poetic, rhapsodic and impressionistic prose, framed in the guise of autobiographical writing. His novels vividly reflect on 1930’s American culture and the mores of that period, filtered through a sensitive and hyper-analytical perspective. His first novel, ‘Look Homeward, Angel’, is now widely regarded as an American classic, characterised for its intense consciousness of scene and place, combined with an extraordinary lyric power. Wolfe imbues his life story with a lofty romantic quality, employing epic overtones. After Wolfe's untimely death at the age of thirty-seven, William Faulkner described him as “the greatest talent of his generation”. This eBook presents Wolfe’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Wolfe’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the major texts
* All the published novels, with individual contents tables
* Features rare stories and poems
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the stories
* The complete plays, with rare dramas appearing here for the first time, including both versions of ‘The Mountains’
* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Includes Wolfe’s memoirs and essays
* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres

Please a few posthumous works published many years after Wolfe’s death cannot appear due to copyright restrictions. When new texts become available, they will be added to the eBook as a free update.



The Novels
Look Homeward, Angel (1929)
Of Time and the River (1935)
The Web and the Rock (1939)
You Can’t Go Home Again (1940)
The Hills Beyond (1941)

The Shorter Fiction
From Death to Morning (1935)
Stories from ‘The Hills Beyond’ (1941)
Miscellaneous Short Stories

The Short Stories
List of Short Stories in Chronological Order
List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order

The Plays
Deferred Payment (1919)
The Streets of Durham (1919)
Concerning Honest Bob (1920)
The Return of Buck Gavin (1924)
The Third Night (1938)
Mannerhouse (1948)
The A Play in One Act (1970)
The A Drama in Three Acts and a Prologue (1970)

The Poetry
Collected Poems

The Non-Fiction
Miscellaneous Prose

The Memoirs
The Story of a Novel (1935)
A Western Journal (1939)

5593 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 20, 2022

About the author

People best know American writer Thomas Clayton Wolfe for his autobiographical novels, including Look Homeward, Angel (1929) and the posthumously published You Can't Go Home Again (1940).

Wolfe wrote four lengthy novels and many short stories, dramatic works and novellas. He mixed highly original, poetic, rhapsodic, and impressionistic prose with autobiographical writing. Wolfe wrote and published books that vividly reflect on American culture and the mores, filtered through his sensitive, sophisticated and hyper-analytical perspective. People widely knew him during his own lifetime.

Wolfe inspired the works of many other authors, including Betty Smith with A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Robert Morgan with Gap Creek; Pat Conroy, author of Prince of Tides, said, "My writing career began the instant I finished Look Homeward, Angel." Jack Kerouac idolized Wolfe. Wolfe influenced Ray Bradbury, who included Wolfe as a character in his books.

(from Wikipedia)