The Four Lost Men: The Previously Unpublished Long Version, Including the Original Short Story - Hardcover

Thomas Wolfe

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1570037337 ISBN 13: 9781570037337

Publisher: University of South Carolina Press, 2008

Synopsis

This is the first publication of the long version of Thomas Wolfe's story of familial and national reflection set during the First World War. It offers a portrait of the author's dying father, as well as a meditation on American history and ambitions on the verge of US entry into a broadening global conflict.

About this title

About the Author:

Arlyn Bruccoli is an independent scholar and a Wolfe specialist.

Matthew J. Bruccoli is the Emily Brown Jefferies Professor Emeritus of English at the University of South Carolina and the leading authority on the House of Scribner and its authors. He is the editorial director of the Dictionary of Literary Biography and the author or editor of one hundred books, including The Sons of Maxwell Perkins: Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and Their Editor.

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"So it was with my father. Just as I had heard him tell a thousand times of old wars and battles and the thousand scenes and stories of the past which he had known and lived, just as I had heard him speak as now, a thousand times, of the strange lost moments of dark time, of vanished faces, of lost men, of `Garfield, Arthur, Harrison, and Hayes,' so had I never grown weary of these stories, nor of the way in which he told them, the soaring rhetoric and familiar epithet, the design that grew, enlarged, and enriched itself forever, but was woven from the old familiar thread of joy."

About this edition

• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1570037337
• ISBN 13: 9781570037337
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 92
• Editor: Arlyn Bruccoli, Matthew J. Bruccoli