Thomas Wolfe: Complete Works: Look Homeward, Angel, Of Time and the River, The Web and the Rock, You Can’t Go Home Again... (Bauer Classics)

by Thomas Wolfe

Thomas Wolfe is known for mixing highly original, poetic, rhapsodic, and impressionistic prose with autobiographical writing. His books, written and published from the 1920s to the 1940s, vividly reflect on American culture and the mores of that period, filtered through Wolfe's sensitive, sophisticated, and hyper-analytical perspective.'Thomas Complete Works' NOVELS Look Homeward, Angel Of Time and the River The Web and the Rock You Can’t Go Home Again The Hills Beyond The Good Child’s River The Party at Jack’s  STORIES An Angel on the Porch A Portrait of Bascom Hawke The Web of Earth The Train and the City Death the Proud Brother No Door The Four Lost Men Boom Town The Sun and the Rain The House of the Far and Lost Dark in the Forest, Strange as Time The Names of the Nation For Professional Appearance One of the Girls in Our Party Circus at Dawn His Father’s Earth Old Catawba Arnold Pentland The Face of the War Gulliver In the Park Only the Dead Know Brooklyn Polyphemus The Far and the Near The Bums at Sunset The Bell Remembered Fame and the Poet I Have a Thing to Tell You Return Mr. Malone Oktoberfest ’E, A Recollection April, Late April The Child by Tiger Katamoto The Lost Boy Chickamauga The Company A Prologue to America Portrait of a Literary Critic The Party at Jack’s The Birthday A Note on Dexter Vespasian Joyner Three O’Clock The Winter of Our Discontent The Dark Messiah The Hollyhock Sowers Nebraska Crane So This Is Man The Promise of America The Hollow Men The Anatomy of Loneliness The Lion at Morning The Plumed Knight The Newspaper No Cure for It On Leprechauns The Return of the Prodigal Old Man Rivers Justice Is Blind No More Rivers The Spanish LetterPLAYS The Mountains MannerhouseCOLLEGE WRITINGS A Field in Flanders To France The Challenge A Cullenden of Virginia To Rupert Brooke The Drammer An Appreciation The Creative Movement in Writing Deferred Payment Russian Folk Song

Genres: Classics, Literature, Fiction

5951 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 17, 2025

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)

Reviews

[Johannes J Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

The very best by far

No. I have not finished a quarter of this immaculate prose by an unmatched author because i wanted all and every to read this. I did not know it existed else would have read it 60 years ago. If there is one author all should read, this is it. It is not only a story, it is wisdom and philosophy in the best of English. Highly recommended even for your children.

[Alethea Hammer · Rating 4 out of 5]

All the novels and more

I bought this book for the novels, most especially You Can't Go Home Again. But the bonus is a bunch of really great short stories he had published in Harper's and other magazines. There are some plays as well. I did not like those as much. He wasn't a playwright.

[Sarah Bates · Rating 2 out of 5]

Wolfe was an important writer, so I wanted to read his prose to see how it ranked against Fitzgerald and Hemingway, my favorite authors of that era. I started with Look Homeward Angel but found the narrative difficult to read. I tried twice to get involved, but Wolfe's writing voice rambled leaving me dissatisfied and bored.

[Arthur · Rating 4 out of 5]

Most of the these works are good, interesting, and full of promise. At times the author gets lost in the story, but still they are worth reading.

[Brendan Drury · Rating 5 out of 5]

As Wolfe taught us, 'You just can't go home again. Home changed a whole bunch while you were gone.'