Showing results for "Thomas Wolfe" in World Literature

Thomas Wolfe’s first novel, Look Homeward, Angel, is at once a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story and a dark novel depicting a cynical post-war world view. The book follows the life of Eugene Gant, a young man driven by passion, intellect, and a search for something greater than himself. His earliest years in rural North Carolina include a wonderful education in poetry and literature against the backdrop of a loving, but tumultuous family life.

An exhilarating satire of Eighties excess that captures the effervescent spirit of New York, from one of the greatest writers of modern American prose Sherman McCoy is a WASP, bond trader and self-appointed 'Master of the Universe'. He has a fashionable wife, a Park Avenue apartment and a...

2005 Audie Award Finalist America's "peerless observer" (People) uncovers college life—from jocks to mutants, dormcest to tailgating—plus race, class, sex, and basketball Dupont University—the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and...

Woher das Leben kommt und was es eigentlich ist: Um diese beiden Fragen kreist der neue Roman von Karl Ove Knausgård – der, wenn man so will, eine Art Prequel zum international bejubelten "Der Morgenstern" darstellt. Was ist geschehen, bevor dieser unerklärliche, weithin sichtbare unbekannte Stern am Himmel auftauchte und scheinbar sämtliche physikalische Regeln außer Kraft setzte? "Die Wölfe aus dem Wald der Ewigkeit" beginnt im Jahr 1986. In Norwegen gibt es eine Regierungskrise, und im fernen Tschernobyl ist ein Atomreaktor explodiert.

Nine unabridged essays from Hooking Up with five read by Tom Wolfe! Only yesterday boys and girls spoke of embracing and kissing (necking) as getting to first base. Second base was deep kissing, plus groping and fondling this and that. Third base was oral sex. Home plate was going all the way...

2005 Audie Award Finalist America's "peerless observer" (People) uncovers college life—from jocks to mutants, dormcest to tailgating—plus race, class, sex, and basketball Dupont University—the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and...