Look Homeward, Angel [1929] - Thomas Wolfe

"...a stone, a leaf, an unfound door; of a stone, a leaf, a door. And of all the forgotten faces... O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again."

Subtitled "A Story of the Buried Life," Look Homeward, Angel served as Thomas Wolfe's thinly disguised autobiographical look at his hometown of Asheville, North Carolina - and residents were NOT amused! The title was taken from John Milton's "Lycidas": "Look homeward Angel now, and melt with ruth: And, O ye Dolphins, waft the hapless youth." Wolfe died of tuberculosis at the age of 38 in 1938.