From Death to Morning is a collection of short stories by the 20th century American writer Thomas Wolfe. It was published by Scribner's in 1935 (the same year they also published Wolfe's novel Of Time and the River ). [1]
The book includes 14 stories: "No Door," "Death the Proud Brother," "The Face of War," "Only the Dead Know Brooklyn," "Dark in the Forest, Strange as Time", "The Four Lost Men," "Gulliver", "The Bums at Sunset", "One of the Girls in our Party", "The Far and the Near", "In the Park", "The Men of Old Catawba", "Circus of Dawn", and "The Web of Earth". [2] Some are but five or six pages long. [3]
Kirkus Reviews described the stories as not so much stories as impressions, lacking plots and scenarios, being more in the nature of "jottings and footnotes to journalistic episodes". Kirkus nevertheless praised the book highly, as a skillful and brilliant blended pattern, less uneven than his longer works. [4] Bookseller Blind Horse Books characterized the collection as a whole as revolving around the passage of time, the inevitability of death, and the human experience of memory and loss, and how people struggle in approaching these aspects of existence. [5]
Gene Rodman Wolfe was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He was noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith. He was a prolific short story writer and novelist, and won many literary awards. Wolfe has been called "the Melville of science fiction", and was honored as a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
Thomas Clayton Wolfe was a major American novelist of the first half of the 20th century. His enduring reputation rests largely on his first novel, Look Homeward, Angel (1929), and on the short fiction that appeared during the last years of his life. He was one of the first masters of autobiographical fiction, and along with William Faulkner, he is considered one of the most important authors of the Southern Renaissance within the American literary canon. He is North Carolina's most famous writer.
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Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life is a 1929 novel by Thomas Wolfe. It is Wolfe's first novel, and is considered a highly autobiographical American coming-of-age story. The character of Eugene Gant is generally believed to be a depiction of Wolfe himself. The novel briefly recounts Eugene's father's early life, but primarily covers the span of time from Eugene's birth in 1900 to his definitive departure from home at the age of 19. The setting is a fictionalization of his home town of Asheville, North Carolina, called Altamont in the novel.
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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Edward Campbell Aswell was a 20th-century American editor. He was Thomas Wolfe's last editor and edited Wolfe's three posthumous books. This required considerable editorial work as the manuscripts were not in publishable form at Wolfe's death, but how much credit for the resulting three books devolves to Wolfe, and how much to Aswell, remains a subject of dispute.
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