One character in this work rides the rails to Knoxville with Gus Moody and is responsible along with Tom Flack for regularly retrieving another character from the Eagle Crescent brothel.  As a young child the protagonist is trodden upon by a horse driving a wagon laden with the Hilliards' groceries, and later in life he is heartbroken when his girlfriend leaves him to marry Richard.  The protagonist of this novel gets his first job delivering papers with Luke after the death of his brother Gordon during the St. Louis World's Fair, and later he is sent to the university at Pulpit Hill after the completion of his schoolwork under Margaret Leonard.  Much of his life is 
One character in this work rides the rails to Knoxville with Gus Moody and is responsible along with Tom Flack for regularly retrieving another character from the Eagle Crescent brothel.  As a young child the protagonist is trodden upon by a horse driving a wagon laden with the Hilliards' groceries, and later in life he is heartbroken when his girlfriend leaves him to marry Richard.  The protagonist of this novel gets his first job delivering papers with Luke after the death of his brother Gordon during the St. Louis World's Fair, and later he is sent to the university at Pulpit Hill after the completion of his schoolwork under Margaret Leonard.  Much of his life is spent in Dixieland, the boardinghouse run by his mother Eliza in Altamont.  Ending with a vision of Ben just before the protagonist heads to Harvard, this is, for 10 points, what novel about Eugene Gant by Thomas Wolfe?
One character in this work rides the rails to Knoxville with Gus Moody and is responsible along with Tom Flack for regularly retrieving another character from the Eagle Crescent brothel.  
Look Homeward, Angel