The Web and the Root by Thomas Wolfe

The Web and the Root by Thomas Wolfe

Published for the first time as a discrete whole, The Web and the Root presents the critically acclaimed opening sections of Thomas Wolfe's classic novel The Web and the Rock

Shortly before his death at a tragically young age, author Thomas Wolfe presented his editor with an epic masterwork that was subsequently published as three separate novels: You Can't Go Home Again, The Hills Beyond, and The Web and the Rock.

The Web and the Root features the three initial sections of the The Web and the Rock, widely considered to be the book's strongest material. A prequel to You Can't Go Home Again, it is the story of George Webber's momentous journey from Libya Falls, North Carolina, to the Golden City of the North--offering vivid, sometimes cutting depictions of rural pleasures and small-town clannishness while exploring boundless urban possibility and the complex, violent undercurrents of the metropolis.

Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) was born in Asheville, North Carolina, and attended Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. He traveled widely in Europe and America while teaching English at New York University. With books like Look Homeward, Angel, Of Time and the River, A Stone, a Leaf, a Door, and From Death to Dawn, Wolfe cemented his reputation as a classic American author.