Book Description
Best known for his first two novels Look Homeward, Angel and Of Time and the River, Thomas Wolfe died at the age of 37. Examine these works along with his posthumously published The Web and the Rock and You Can't Go Home Again. This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. These text presents critical essays that reflect a variety of schools of criticism on the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature. Each volume also contains an introductory essay by Harold Bloom, critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index.