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Thomas Wolfe's 1929 semi-autobiographical novel is a rich and detailed tapestry of human experience, chronicling the coming-of-age of Eugene Gant in the early 20th century. The narrative begins with Eugene's birth into a tumultuous family in the fictional town of Altamont, a place defined by his father's alcoholism and his mother's obsession with property acquisition. As a shy and awkward boy, Eugene grapples with a turbulent home life and the relentless torment of his siblings, finding solace only in literature. The novel follows his journey through different settings-the university at Pulpit Hill, where his romantic notions are shattered by peer cruelty, and the port city of Norfolk, where he witnesses poverty and moral ambiguity. His experiences ultimately lead him to forsake conventional life in favor of a solitary existence devoted to literary pursuits. Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

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Thomas Clayton Wolfe (1900–1938) was an American novelist celebrated for his expansive, poetic, and deeply autobiographical fiction that vividly captures the emotional and social pulse of early 20th-century America. Born in Asheville, North Carolina, he was the youngest of eight children in his mother’s boarding house. He drew heavily on his upbringing in works like Look Homeward, Angel (1929), mapping childhood, family, and ambition onto a fictional alter-ego, Eugene Gant, in a style marked by lyrical intensity and impressionistic prose. Wolfe was educated at the University of North Carolina and Harvard, where he grew from aspiring playwright to novelist, publishing three more major autobiographical works—Of Time and the River (1935), The Web and the Rock (posthumous, 1939), and You Can’t Go Home Again (posthumous, 1940)—that explored themes of homecoming, longing, and personal myth. Despite dying at 37 from tuberculosis, his ripe, sprawling narratives and emotional candor influenced later writers and secured his place as a central figure in the American Southern Renaissance. Today, Wolfe's childhood home in Asheville (immortalized as ""Dixieland"" in his fiction) is preserved as the Thomas Wolfe Memorial and is open to the public. 

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