Southern author Thomas Wolfe’s ultimate goal was to create an epic that presents his America as seen through the eyes of an autobiographical character meant to represent all Americans, their lifestyle, their struggles, their ...

With his final, posthumously published, novel, Thomas Wolfe digs deep into the human condition and comes to the conclusion that people, as a group and as a collective, deny the importance of individual existence. All people ...

In The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen introduces the reader to the Lamberts: a dysfunctional family of highly individualistic characters whose goals and ideas never intersect. Throughout the course of the novel, the elderly ...