{"product_id":"9781570037344","title":"The Magical Campus: University of North Carolina Writings, 1917-1920","description":"\u003cb\u003eA collection of Wolfe's earliest publications from his college years\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdited by Matthew J. Bruccoli and Aldo P. Magi, \u003ci\u003eThe Magical Campus\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWolfe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncluded in \u003ci\u003eThe Magical Campus\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Return of Buck Gavin\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDeferred Payment,\u003c\/i\u003e mark the start of his unrealized ambitions to be a playwright.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of South Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47040802029808,"sku":"9781570037344","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781570037344_p0.jpg?v=1763765016","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781570037344","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}