The Autobiography of an American Novelist"The story of a novel"--Part one of this book - is a candid telling of how Wolfe became a writer and how he wrote and published his first novel. "Writing and living" - the second part of this book - is a testament to Wolfe's newly awakened social conscience. |
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Page 51
... material and which could not be escaped , and for which I was now desperately , and , it seemed , fruitlessly , seeking some structural channel . Briefly , what I now discov- ered about my material as my knowledge of its extent and ...
... material and which could not be escaped , and for which I was now desperately , and , it seemed , fruitlessly , seeking some structural channel . Briefly , what I now discov- ered about my material as my knowledge of its extent and ...
Page 53
... material and the dense web of three great elements of time within the pages of one book . It was not until more than a year had passed , when I realized finally that what I had to deal with was material which covered almost 150 years in ...
... material and the dense web of three great elements of time within the pages of one book . It was not until more than a year had passed , when I realized finally that what I had to deal with was material which covered almost 150 years in ...
Page 58
... material which had already reached a length of approximately two million words . I now began to see plainly that from this material the manuscript of at least two long books had begun to take shape , and that it would be absolutely ...
... material which had already reached a length of approximately two million words . I now began to see plainly that from this material the manuscript of at least two long books had begun to take shape , and that it would be absolutely ...
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