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The Magical Campus: University of North Carolina Writings, 1917-1920
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The Magical Campus: University of North Carolina Writings, 1917-1920 Hardback - 2008

by Thomas Wolfe

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A collection of Wolfe's earliest publications from his college years

Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli and Aldo P. Magi, The Magical Campus collects for the first time Thomas Wolfe's earliest published work--including poems, plays, short fiction, news articles, and essays--both signed and unsigned, assembled in chronological order.

Wolfe began his collegiate career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1916, when he was fifteen, with a freshman year marked by obscurity and loneliness. By his junior year he had emerged as a recognized and popular figure in campus life, a participant in organizations, clubs, and fraternities as well as the editor of several student publications. He began in these apprenticeship years his ascendancy to iconic literary status.

Included in The Magical Campus is Wolfe's first published work, the poem "A Field in Flanders" from the November 1917 issue of the Magazine. Here too is the poem "The Challenge," Wolfe's first piece to be reprinted off campus, in his hometown newspaper and elsewhere across the Southeast. "A Cullenden of Virginia" represents his inaugural foray into published fiction; and his folk plays, such as The Return of Buck Gavin and Deferred Payment, mark the start of his unrealized ambitions to be a playwright.

Though they lack the sophistication and scale of the grand fictions that now define Wolfe's place in literature, these and others of his student publications testify to the potential he had tapped into through instruction and encouragement at Chapel Hill.

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  • Title The Magical Campus: University of North Carolina Writings, 1917-1920
  • Author Thomas Wolfe
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 134
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of South Carolina Press, Columbia
  • Publication date 2008-05
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781570037344 / 1570037345
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.03 x 6.54 x 0.69 in (22.94 x 16.61 x 1.75 cm)
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects American literature - 20th century
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2007049939
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.52

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Aldo P. Magi, an editor emeritus of the Thomas Wolfe Review and a founding father of the Thomas Wolfe Society, has published numerous books and articles about Thomas Wolfe. His library of more than three thousand Thomas Wolfe items is now at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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