Thomas Wolfe (Author of Look Homeward, Angel)

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Thomas Wolfe

Born

in Asheville, North Carolina, The United States

October 03, 1900

Died

September 15, 1938

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Genre

Literature & Fiction

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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 ...more

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Average rating: 3.96 · 28,129 ratings · 2,690 reviews · 346 distinct works 鈥� Similar authors

	Look Homeward, Angel 3.92 avg rating — 15,384 ratings — published 1929 — 385 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	You Can't Go Home Again 4.05 avg rating — 5,274 ratings — published 1940 — 129 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth by Thomas Wolfe, Pat Conroy (Introduction) 4.20 avg rating — 1,281 ratings — published 1935 — 106 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lost Boy by Thomas Wolfe, Ed Lindlof, James W. Clark Jr. 3.94 avg rating — 1,119 ratings — published 1937 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Web and the Rock 4.01 avg rating — 669 ratings — published 1938 — 71 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Short Stories Of Thomas Wolfe by Thomas Wolfe, James Dickey (Foreword), Francis E. Skipp (Editor) 4.18 avg rating — 275 ratings — published 1987 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From Death to Morning 3.89 avg rating — 242 ratings — published 1935 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hills Beyond 3.86 avg rating — 214 ratings — published 1941 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	O Lost: A Story of the Buried Life by Thomas Wolfe, Arlyn Bruccoli (Editor), Matthew J. Bruccoli (Editor) 4.35 avg rating — 190 ratings — published 2000 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Story of a Novel 3.82 avg rating — 215 ratings — published 1936 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Thomas Wolfe (?)

“Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don鈥檛 freeze up.”
― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again

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“I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.”
― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again

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“There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.”
― Thomas Wolfe

tags: cooking, homemaking, wife

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The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 776 pages, 1880

64 votes, 19.5%

The Arabian Nights, 1049 pages, 800

55 votes, 16.8%

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, 798 pages, 1320

35 votes, 10.7%

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, 684 pages, 1915

31 votes, 9.5%

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickelby by Charles Dickens, 864 pages, 1839

30 votes, 9.1%

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, 1182 pages, 1021

20 votes, 6.1%

Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann, 731 pages, 1901

13 votes, 4.0%

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding, 975 pages, 1749

13 votes, 4.0%

The Sagas of Icelanders, 782 pages, 1200

9 votes, 2.7%

The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser, 1248 pages, 1590

9 votes, 2.7%

Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe, 644 pages, 1929

8 votes, 2.4%

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, 909 pages, 1353

7 votes, 2.1%

Texas by James A. Michener, 1472 pages, 1985

7 votes, 2.1%

厂丑艒驳耻苍 by James Clavell, 1152 pages, 1975

7 votes, 2.1%

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, 1139 pages, 1999

7 votes, 2.1%

Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson, 1534 pages, 1748

7 votes, 2.1%

A Dream of Red Mansion by Cao Xueqin, 2400 pages, 1791

6 votes, 1.8%

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