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You Can't Go Home Again is the name of a novel by Thomas Wolfe. This has always reminded me of a saying from Heraclitus: "It is impossible to step into the same river twice." When...
You Can't Go Home Again is a novel by Thomas Wolfe published posthumously in 1940, extracted by his editor, Edward Aswell, from the contents of his vast unpublished manuscript The October Fair. It is a sequel to The Web and the Rock , which, along with the collection The Hills Beyond , was extracted from the same manuscript.
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Of Time and the River. Of Time and the River (subtitled A Legend of Man's Hunger in his Youth) is a 1935 novel by American author Thomas Wolfe. It is a fictionalized autobiography, using the name Eugene Gant for Wolfe's, detailing the protagonist's early and mid-twenties, during which time the character attends Harvard University, moves to New ...
Thomas Wolfe, Pat Conroy (Introduction) 4.21. 1,238 ratings105 reviews. The sequel to Thomas Wolfe's remarkable first novel, Look Homeward, Angel, Of Time and the River is one of the great classics of American literature.
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You Can’t Go Home Again, novel by Thomas Wolfe, published posthumously in 1940 after heavy editing by Edward Aswell. This novel, like Wolfe’s other works, is largely autobiographical, reflecting details of his life in the 1930s.
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268 quotes from Thomas Wolfe: 'Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.', 'I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.', and 'There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.'.
George Webber has written a successful novel about his family and hometown. When he returns to that town he is shaken by the force of the outrage and hatred that greets him. Family and friends feel naked and exposed by the truths they have seen in his book, and their fury drives him from his home.
