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This novel is about a young man's burning desire to leave his small town and tumultuous family in search of a better life, in 1929. The novel follows the trajectory of Eugene Gant, a brilliant and restless young man whose wanderlust and passion shape his adolescent years in rural North... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Eugene Gant: Eugene Gant, protagonist of Look Homeward Angel, is an autobiographical version of the author himself. Dramatic and self-conscious, his character and opinions change several times throughout the novel.
- W. O. (William Oliver) Gant: Add a description of this character.
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“And suddenly, he knew how completely he was his father’s son — how completely, and with what added power and exquisite refinement of sensation, was he Gantian. He exulted in the great length of his limbs and his body, through which the mighty liquor could better work its wizardry. In all the earth there was no other like him, no other fitted to be so sublimely and magnificently drunken.”
Eugene Gant -
“Come up into the hills, O my young love. Return! O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again, as first I knew you in the timeless valley, where we shall feel ourselves anew, bedded on magic in the month of June.”
Eugene Gant
First Sentence edit
A destiny that leads the English to the Dutch is strange enough; but one that leads from Epsom into Pennsylvania, and thence into the hills that shut in Altamont over the proud coral cry of the cock, and the soft stone smile of an angel, is touched by that dark miracle of chance which makes new magic in a dusty world.
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Bildungsroman. (community list)
This is book 34 of 37 in First Edition Library. (edition-based publisher list)
Preceded by The Age of Innocence, and followed by Native Son.
This is book 95 of 100 in 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction. (authoritative list)
Preceded by Mulligan Stew, and followed by An American Tragedy.
This book is in Kunstlerroman. (community list)
This is book 673 of 1272 in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. (authoritative list)
Preceded by The Holy Terrors (Les Enfants Terribles), and followed by Story of the Eye.
This is book 80 of 214 in Best English-Language Fiction of the 20th Century. (authoritative list)
Preceded by The House of Mirth, and followed by Exodus.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Thomas Wolfe (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Charles Scriber's Sone
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1929
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 544
Publisher: Charles Scriber's Sone
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1929
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 544
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813
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