The Hills Beyond
by Thomas Wolfe
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This wonderful and compelling collection of stories and character sketches contains some of the finest Wolfe ever wrote.Tags
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Thomas Wolfe's last book, a posthumously published assemblage from his collected writings after he died at 37 of pneumonia. Much of the material is of varying quality and covers various generations of the Gant, Webber and Joyner families from his earlier novels. The second half is a novella, "The Hills Beyond", of which the last story (and the splendid ending) are the best of the book. Up to that point I was fairly disappointed by how little the renditions of old family feuds intrigued me, and was wondering what I had ever seen in Thomas Wolfe in high school. That last page reminded me.
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Thomas Wolfe was born in Asheville, North Carolina on October 3, 1900. He graduated from the University of North Carolina and Harvard University. He taught at New York University from 1924 to 1930. His four long autobiographical novels are Look Homeward, Angel; Of Time and the River; The Web and the Rock; and You Can't Go Home Again. He also wrote show more short stories that were collected in The Hills Beyond and From Death to Morning. He wrote several plays including Welcome to Our City. From an early bout with pneumonia, he suffered from tuberculosis of the lungs, which led to fatal tuberculosis of the brain. He died following brain surgery on September 15, 1938 at age 37. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original title
- The Hills Beyond (novella) (novella)
- Original publication date
- 1941
- People/Characters
- George Webber
- Quotations
- He could see the bald head and red face, the stocky figure limping heavily away to court . . . the soldiers coming to the house . . . the things they talked of and the magic that they brought . . . the splendid Generals, and ... (show all)his father so unwarlike, as he thought . . . and the unworthiness of his romantic unbelief . . . to see that burly and prosaic figure as it limped away toward court . . . and, boylike, failing to envision how much of madness or of magic even brick-red faces and bald heads may be familiar with . . . down the Valley of Virginia more than seventy years ago.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Time passing as men pass who never will come back again . . . and leaving us, Great God, with only this . . . knowing that this earth, this time, this life, are stranger than a dream.
- Publisher's editor
- Edward C. Aswell
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- Languages
- Danish, English, German
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- Paper
- ISBNs
- 9
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- 21
