Of Time and the River is a 1935 novel by American novelist Thomas Wolfe

Thomas Wolfe

Thomas Clayton Wolfe was a major American novelist of the early 20th century.Wolfe wrote four lengthy novels, plus many short stories, dramatic works and novellas. He is known for mixing highly original, poetic, rhapsodic, and impressionistic prose with autobiographical writing...

. It is 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. The novel was published by Scribners and edited by Maxwell Perkins

Maxwell Perkins

William Maxwell Evarts Perkins , was the editor for Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe. He has been described as the most famous literary editor.-Career:...

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A Howard Rodman adaption of this story was presented in the Hallmark Hall of Fame

Hallmark Hall of Fame

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on 1953-10-04. It starred Thomas Mitchell

Thomas Mitchell (actor)

Thomas Mitchell was an American actor, playwright and screenwriter. Among his most famous roles in a long career are those of Gerald O'Hara, the father of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind, the drunken Doc Boone in John Ford's Stagecoach, and Uncle Billy in It's a Wonderful Life...

 as William Oliver Gant. The English

English people

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 composer John McCabe

John McCabe (composer)

John McCabe CBE is an English composer and pianist.- Biography :John McCabe was born in Huyton, Liverpool, Merseyside. A prolific composer from an early age, he had written thirteen symphonies by the time he was eleven...

's Fourth Symphony is subtitled Of Time and the River.

Excerpt

"At that instant he saw, in one blaze of light, an image of unutterable conviction, the reason why the artist works and lives and has his being--the reward he seeks--the only reward he really cares about, without which there is nothing. It is to snare the spirits of mankind in nets of magic, to make his life prevail through his creation, to wreak the vision of his life, the rude and painful substance of his own experience, into the congruence of blazing and enchanted images that are themselves the core of life, the essential pattern whence all other things proceed, the kernel of eternity."

External links

• Of Time and the River, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1935 (facsimile), in Wikilivres.info

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/w/thomas-wolfe/of-time-and-river.htm

http://themoderatevoice.com/18304/guest-book-review-of-time-and-the-river-by-thomas-wolfe/