LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL

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Thomas Wolfe. LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL

LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL

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Thomas Wolfe

To the Reader

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The four oldest children, Henry, Will, Eliza, and Jim, had passed their childhood in the years following the war. The poverty and privation of these years had been so terrible that none of them ever spoke of it now, but the bitter steel had sheared into their hearts, leaving scars that would not heal.

The effect of these years upon the oldest children was to develop in them an insane niggardliness, an insatiate love of property, and a desire to escape from the Major’s household as quickly as possible.

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