The Mountains

"The Mountains, a product of Wolfe's dramatic apprenticeship, constitutes the novelist's earliest achieved writing on a large scale. Begun while he was still in Chapel Hill, the one-act version was completed and performed in Cambridge in 1921, the reshaped into full-length form late [by early spring 1922]. Though neither play was successful, both served as valuable exercises toward the author's eventual ripening as a writer of fiction, and the longer on represents a major evolutionary step for the man who would one day write Look homeward, angel."--Dust jacket