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Thornton Wilder
Biography:
Born 1897 in Madison, Wisconsin. Moved to China in 1906 when
his father was appointed as an American consul general. Graduated from Yale and then
received his M.A. from Princeton. Taught English at the Lawrenceville School and
University of Chicago and considered teaching his profession. His writing was done for
pleasure, but after gaining great success, became a full-time writer. Died
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3 Plays:
Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker
This omnibus volume brings together the definitive texts of three
outstanding plays by one of America's most distinguished writers. Thornton
Wilder was equally prolific and successful as a dramatist and novelist. Our
Town (1938) and The Skin of Our Teeth (1942) were each awarded
the Pulitzer Prize. The Matchmaker (1955) was originally staged as The
Merchant of Yonkers (1938) and later appeared as a hit musical, Hello
Dolly! (1964).
Paperback - 431 pages (October 1998) $12.00
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
"A remarkably confident evocation of the
secret springs of half a dozen men, women, and children... A very
beautiful book." (Clifton Fadiman, The Nation)
"One of the greatest reading novels in
this century's American writing... Wonderfully lucid reading." (Edmund
Fuller)
Paperback - 133 pages (October 1998) $8.00
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The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder
The theater world's great rediscovery of
Thornton Wilder shifts into high gear with this glorious volume of short
plays - some recently discovered among his papers and published here for
the first time. The Pulitzer-winning author of Our Town and The
Skin of Our Teeth returned constantly to the short form, perhaps more
than any other contemporary playwright. His mastery is revealed in cut
gems Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden, The Long Christmas
Dinner, and especially Pullman Car Hiawatha. With this volume
edited by Donald Gallup and Wilder's nephew A. Tappan Wilder we add the
playlets of two great unfinished cycles, The Seven Ages of Man and The
Seven Deadly Sins, several of which have been completed by a scholar,
respectfully based on Wilder's writings and conversations. Best among the
hitherto unproduced works is Rivers Under the Earth, about the dark
currents moving beneath the placid surface of a family on summer vacation.
Like so many of Wilder's longer works, these short plays seem to be homely
slices of Americana - but every once in a while they suddenly yield
glimpses of the infinite.
Volume
II of Wilder's collected plays includes The Angel That Troubled the
Waters, Our Century, The Unerring Instinct, and The
Alcestiad, or a Life in the Sun, a little-known retelling of an
ancient Greek legend.
Paperback - 360 pages (August
1998) $14.36
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Conversations
with Thornton Wilder
Paperback - 130 pages (January 1992) $12.76
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The Ides of March
Hardcover (September
1997) $22.37
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The Journals of Thornton Wilder, 1939-1961
Hardcover - 354 pages
(October 1985) $20.00
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Our Town: A Play in Three Acts
"Taking as his material three periods in the history of a placid New
Hampshire town, Mr. Wilder has transformed the simple events of human life
into universal reverie. He has given familiar facts a deeply moving,
philosophical perspective...Our Town is one of the finest
achievements of the current stage." (Brooks Atkinson)
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 Wilder's most
renowned and most frequently performed play. Featuring a beautiful new
cover and author biography.
Paperback - 121 pages
(October 1998) $6.40
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Mr. North
Paperback (July 1988)
$3.96
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Thornton Wilder Reader
Hardcover (April 2000) $20.00 |
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