This classic piece of American literature first hit the literary big-time in 1935. Eugene Gant leaves the South for the wide world of Harvard University, New York City and Europe, but finds himself homesick and returns to the South. There he falls in love with a character based on the author’s former mistress. Of Time and The River looks at the issues of the passing of time and creativity as well as the American experience. | Of Time and the River by Thomas Wolfe, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters