Audiobooks by Thomas Wolfe

"Dazzlingly rich, lyrical and elegiac, Thomas Wolfe’s vibrant autobiographical first novel, Look Homeward, Angel, follows the story of Eugene Gant, the ninth and last child born to alcoholic Oliver and go-getting Eliza in the fictional town of Altemont, based on Wolfe’s hometown of Asheville, North Carolina. The novel recounts Eugene’s early life, up to his departure from home at the age of 19. A brilliant and restless young man struck by family tragedy, Eugene possesses a great imagination and voracious appetite for experience, which give him a burning desire to leave his tumultuous small-town life in search of something better. Thomas Wolfe’s epic voice – poetic and rhapsodic, brimming with joy, existential terror and rage – had an earth-shattering effect on the literary landscape of America in the early 20th-century, raising him up alongside legendary writers of the American South, such as William Faulkner and Flannery O’Conner."

Thomas Wolfe (Author), Adam Sims (Narrator)

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Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life

"“Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.” Thomas Wolfe’s first novel, Look Homeward, Angel, is at once a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story and a dark novel depicting a cynical post-war world view. The book follows the life of Eugene Gant, a young man driven by passion, intellect, and a search for something greater than himself. His earliest years in rural North Carolina include a wonderful education in poetry and literature against the backdrop of a loving, but tumultuous family life. Eugene grows up to be a writer, and as he navigates the realities of school, love, health, and what it means to discover your place in the world, he must reconcile the choice between family and self-actualization. Wolfe once described Look Homeward, Angel as “a book made out of my life,” and the care and insight he uses to tell Eugene’s story are apparent from the very first words of the story. Wolfe’s novel has become influential to so many young people yearning for more, and to writers yearning for literary truth and beauty. Featuring an introduction written and read by Stefan Rudnicki."

Thomas Wolfe (Author), Stefan Rudnicki (Narrator)

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The Foundations of Fiction - Modernism

"In this series we turn the pages of classic short stories to put together the literary building blocks of how a particular genre or theme began, how it built its foundations to become the well-loved and well-worn genre that it is today.Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving. Success undoubtedly builds success and in literary terms we can more politely say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and the surest way to reach a hungry readership is to build on the fortune and flair of your literary colleagues. It’s a reality that the term ‘modernism’ was first used for stories well over a century ago. Like fine wines they have aged remarkably well. In this volume the talents of Virginia Woolf, F Scott Fitzgerald, Katherine Mansfield, James Joyce are testament to the craft, imagination and literary chops these authors have brought to prose in one of its most enduring literary movements. 01 - Foundations of Fiction - Modernism - An Introduction2 - Bliss by Katherine Mansfield3 - Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F Scott Fitzgerald4 - The Legacy by Virginia Woolf5 - The Dead by James Joyce6 - Here We Are by Dorothy Parker7 - Odour of Chrysanthemums by D H Lawrence8 - If I Were A Man by Charlotte Perkins Gilman9 - Tomorrow by Eugene O'Neill10 - Friday by Zona Gale11 - The Defense of Strikerville by Damon Runyon12 - Rooms by Gertrude Stein13 - The Mark on the Wall by Virginia Woolf14 - The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield15 - Eveline by James Joyce16 - His Smile by Susan Glaspell17 - A Cullenden of Virginia by Thomas Wolfe18 - Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield19 - The Golden Honeymoon by Ring Lardner20 - Winter Dreams by F Scott Fitzgerald21 - Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf22 - Ariel's Triumph by Booth Tarkington23 - Speed by Sinclair Lewis24 - Araby by James Joyce25 - The Ice Palace by F Scott Fitzgerald26 - The Fly by Katherine Mansfield27 - White Bread by Zona Gale28 - A Dill Pickle by Katherine Mansfield"

Booth Tarkington, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, D.H. Lawrence, Damon Runyon, Dorothy Parker, Eugene O'Neill, F Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, Ring Lardner, Sinclair Lewis, Susan Glaspell, Thomas Wolfe, Virginia Woolf, Zona Gale (Author), Eric Meyers, Eve Karpf, Laurel Lefkow (Narrator)

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[German] - Tod, der stolze Bruder

"'Mit allem, was nachts auf Erden geschieht, hatte ich Bekanntschaft gemacht, und schließlich auch nachts jene drei Gefährten kennengelernt, mit denen ich meines Lebens besten Teil zubrachte, – den stolzen Tod und dessen Geschwister, die strenge Einsamkeit und den großen Schlaf.' So beginnt die Erzählung von Thomas Wolfe in der er nächtliche Begebenheiten von Menschen, Schicksalen und Tod in Brooklyn schildert."

Thomas Wolfe (Author), Jan Koester (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - Una puerta que nunca encontré

"A pesar de haber sido escrita antes que El niño perdido, William Faulkner (uno de los grandes lectores de Wolfe) consideraba Una puerta que nunca encontré «su continuación natural». Aparece también aquí el hermano perdido, aunque son otros los verdaderos protagonistas de la novela: el padre muerto y la casa familiar; los rudos conductores que atraviesan Estados Unidos de noche con sus camiones repletos de mercancías y un millonario harto de su acomodada vida; los espléndidos y singulares estudiantes de una universidad inglesa y un misterioso personaje que, inmutable, observa cada día el mundo tras una ventana… Pero, sobre todo, «protagoniza» estas páginas extraordinarias el narrador, un Thomas Wolfe que, como él mismo confesaría, dibujó aquí todo su entusiasmo, toda su confusión y todos sus anhelos juveniles (sin saber que moriría poco después, y aún joven). Octubre de 1931, de 1923, de 1926, el mes de abril de 1928: un viaje en el tiempo por las estaciones clave en la naturaleza del país y por cuatro momentos esenciales en la vida del autor que muchos lectores reconocerán como parte de su propia vida."

Thomas Wolfe (Author), Chema Agulló (Narrator)

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[Italian] - Angelo, guarda il passato

"Thomas Clayton Wolfe, morto di tubercolosi a soli 38 anni, è uno scrittore e poeta statunitense. È famoso soprattutto per la sua scrittura moderna, poetica, impressionista. Questo è il suo romanzo più famoso, il cui titolo si ispira ad un verso di Milton, e ripercorre , attraverso le vicende dei protagonisti, la vita dell’America di inizio del XX secolo. Con occhio disincantato ,vengono sezionati i modi di vivere e di pensare degli Americani, questi “esuli in patria”, che non riescono mai a sfuggire alla loro brama di viaggi, di orizzonti diversi, di cieli più ampi. E, dietro tutto questo, una domanda ricorrente: perché tutto questo? E, sempre, la sensazione di una morte che si avvicina, a liberare dall’inutilità dell’esistenza, a permettere il ricongiungimento con un mondo e un incanto perduto. Libro ricco di elementi autobiografici, ha ispirato, col suo stile, Jack Kerouac e la beat generation.Musica di Scott Joplin."

Thomas Wolfe (Author), Silvia Cecchini (Narrator)

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Audiobooks by Thomas Wolfe

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