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Wilder Thornton
Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics)
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A handsome Perennial Classics edition of America's favourite play, Our Town, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. First produced and published in 1938, this Pulitzer Prize–winning drama of life in the small village of Grover's Corners has become an American classic and is Thornton Wider's most renowned and most frequently performed play. This Perennial Classics edition includes a foreword by Donald Margulies and contains an afterword with documentary material edited by Tappan Wilder.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel
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"On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." With this celebrated sentence, Thornton Wilder begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the towering achievements in American fiction and a novel read throughout the world. By chance, a monk witnesses the tragedy. Brother Juniper seeks to prove that it was divine intervention rather than chance that led to the deaths of those who perished in the tragedy. His study leads to his own death -- and to the author's timeless investigation into the nature of love and the meaning of the human condition. The Bridge of San Luis Rey is now reissued in this handsome hardcover edition featuring a new foreword by Russell Banks. Tappan Wilder has written an engaging and thought-provoking afterword, which includes unpublished notes for the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, illuminating photographs, and other remarkable documentary material. Granville Hicks's insightful comment about Wilder suggests an inveterate truth: "As a craftsman he is second to none, and there are few who have looked deeper into the human heart."
Thornton Wilder: A Life
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Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Matchmaker (Perennial Classics)
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Three of the greatest plays in American literature collected in one volume This important new omnibus edition features an illuminating foreword by playwright John Guare and an extensive afterword for each play drawing on unpublished letters and other unique documentary material prepared by Tappan Wilder. Our Town—Wilder's timeless 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning look at love, death, and destiny is celebrated around the world and performed at least once each day in the United States. The Skin of our Teeth—Wilder's 1942 romp about human follies and human endurance starring the Antrobus family of Excelsior, New Jersey. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1943. The Matchmaker—Wilder's brilliant 1954 farce about money and love starring that irrepressible busybody Dolly Gallagher Levi. This play inspired the Broadway musical Hello, Dolly!.
Thornton Wilder: The Eighth Day, Theophilus North, AutobiographicalWritings (Library of America)
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"The best thing he ever wrote," observed Edmund Wilson of Thornton Wilder's National Book Award winner The Eighth Day (1967), an enthralling novel that shows Wilder revisiting the small-town America of Our Town to fashion a philosophical whodunit. A wrongful conviction for murder and a daring rescue lead to a meditation on justice, destiny, and "the impassioned will," for which "nothing is impossible." Wilder's last novel, the semi-autobiographical Theophilus North (1973), is an affectionate portrait of Newport, Rhode Island, in the 1920s and a playful, valedictory glance at Wilder's young manhood. Completing this volume are three never-before- published reminiscences taken from an unfinished autobiography in which Wilder engagingly recalls his childhood stay at a boarding school in China, his time as an undergraduate at Yale, and the uneasy experience of visiting Salzburg not long before Austria was annexed by the Nazis.
Thornton Wilder:The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels 1926-1948 (Library of America No. 194)
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Thornton Wilder was the rare writer whose achievements as a playwright were matched by equal abilities as a novelist. As companion to its volume of Wilder?s collected plays, The Library of America?s edition of his early novels and stories brings together five novels that highlight his wit, erudition, innovative formal structures, and philosophical wisdom. Drawing on the post-collegiate year he spent in Rome, Wilder fashioned in The Cabala a tale of youthful enchantment with the Eternal City in the form of a fictitious memoir of an American student and the enigmatic coterie of noble Romans who draw him into their midst. He followed this debut novel two years later with The Bridge of San Luis Rey, which catapulted him to literary prominence and earned him the first of his three Pulitzer prizes. ?The Bridge,? Wilder later wrote, ?asked the question whether the intention that lies behind love was sufficient to justify the desperation of living.? Set in 18th-century Peru, the book is a kind of theological detective story concerning a friar?s investigations into the lives of five individuals before they were killed in a bridge collapse. An elegantly told parable, with credible historical ambience and psychologically rounded characters, The Bridge of San Luis Rey is primarily a probing inquiry into the nature of destiny and divine intention: Why did God allow these particular people to die?
The Woman of Andros, based on the Andria of Roman writer Terence, is a meditation on the ancient world filtered through the sensibility of a meditative courtesan; Heaven?s My Destination, a departure from Wilder?s historical themes, is a picaresque romp through Depression-era America; and The Ides of March takes up the story of Julius Caesar?s assassination by imagining the exchange of letters among such prominent ancient figures as Catullus, Cleopatra, Cicero, and Caesar himself, ?groping in the open seas of his unlimited power for the first principles which should guide him.? The volume concludes with a selection of early short stories?among them ?Précautions Inutiles,? published here for the first time?and a selection of essays that offers Wilder?s insights into the works of Stein and Joyce, as well as a lecture on letter writers that bears on both The Bridge of San Luis Rey and The Ides of March.
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"The Skin of Our Teeth" is absurdly fantastic - Lawrentian (subscription)
Lawrentian (subscription), WI - May 23, 2009
"The Skin of Our Teeth" is absurdly fantasticThis past weekend, Lawrence University put on the well-known Thornton Wilder play "The Skin of Our Teeth." Those who saw it may say that it was crazy, incomprehensible or downright strange. They would be absolutely right. However convoluted the play
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Thinking of beginnings, endings tending the family graves - Hillsboro Argus - OregonLive.com
Hillsboro Argus - OregonLive.com, OR - May 22, 2009
Thinking of beginnings, endings tending the family gravesI raked the gravel, pulled up the weeds and threw them aside. As I did, I wondered if the Afterworld was like the one in "Our Town," by Thornton Wilder, where the dead conversed with each other but didn't get too excited about their visitors.
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Pelosi Seen Downplaying Human Rights, Tibet on China Visit
Bloomberg - May 23, 2009
“Given the agenda of the Obama administration, I doubt that she will be as provocative on human rights as she has been on previous visits to Beijing,” said Dennis Wilder, Asia director on the National Security Council under President George W. Bush.
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The Actors' Gang Conjures Long Lost Sense of Community in “Our Town” - Santa Monica Mirror
Santa Monica Mirror, CA - May 21, 2009
Santa Monica MirrorThe Actors' Gang Conjures Long Lost Sense of Community in “Our Town”The play is Thornton Wilder's Our Town and the tour guide is a nameless Stage Manager (Steven M. Porter) peeking into the lives of a few New Englanders in the early years of the 20th century. The classic text is in good hands at The Actors' Gang,
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'Town' Lost Amid Nostalgia -- A Little Humor Would Lighten Up Life ... - California Chronicle
California Chronicle, CA - May 23, 1466
'Town' Lost Amid Nostalgia -- A Little Humor Would Lighten Up Life By Christopher Blank In Thornton Wilder's classic drama "Our Town," one of the characters suggests sticking a copy of the script into a time capsule, so that folks in the future can know what small-town life was like in the early 1900s.
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