Of time and the river
Subtitle: a legend of man's hunger in his youth
By: Thomas Wolfe
Publisher: Sun Dial Press
Published: 1944
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 912
Copyright date: 1935
Subjects: Young men; Fiction
Description: "A sequel to Look homeward, angel, describing the author's young manhood at Harvard, in New York and Europe." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation

A fictionalized autobiography, using the name Eugene Gant for Wolfe's, detailing the protagonist's early and mid-twenties, during which time the character attends Harvard University, moves to New York City and teaches English at a university there, and travels overseas with the character Francis Starwick. Francis Starwick was based on Wolfe's friend, playwright Kenneth Raisbeck
Notes: Johnston, C.I. Thomas Wolfe, A 3.1.m

From the collection of William B. Wisdom.

From the library of Daniel Aaron, with his ownership signature, and ms. notations on back pastedown.

Bound in publisher's black cloth with printed green dust jacket.
Table of contents: title: Orestes : flight before fury; title: Young Faustus; title: Telemachus; title: Proteus : the city; title: Jason's voyage; title: Antæus : earth again; title: Kronos and Rhea : the dream of time; title: Faust and Helen