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Author | : Thornton Wilder |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 103 |
Release | : 2023-08-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0593470958 |
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This Pulitzer Prize-winning, fable-like short novel—by the author of Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth—has been beloved around the world for nearly a century. This splendid and profoundly moving novel begins with a simple and seemingly senseless tragedy. "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." A traveling monk, Brother Juniper, witnesses the catastrophe and becomes obsessed with investigating the lives of the five victims in order to prove that their deaths had meaning. His mission is doomed to fail, but over the course of the story, the five unlucky individuals—a noblewoman, a maid, an orphan, an old man, and a child—come to life for the reader in all of their glorious complexity. Their intertwined lives—snuffed out in one shattering moment—illuminate the biggest questions that we can ask ourselves about the nature of love and meaning of the human condition.
Author | : Thornton Wilder |
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Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1927 |
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Author | : Thornton Wilder |
Publisher | : Library of America Thornton Wi |
Total Pages | : 752 |
Release | : 2009-08-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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Download Thornton Wilder: The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels 1926-1948 (LOA #194) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Presents an anthology of novels, short stories, and essays.
Author | : Thornton Wilder |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2020-12-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 006308015X |
Download Heaven's My Destination Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
“If John Steinbeck’s mighty Grapes of Wrath is the tragic novel of the Great Depression, then Heaven’s My Destination is its comic masterpiece. —J.D. McClatchy A hilarious tale about goodness in a fallen world, Heaven’s My Destination introduces George Marvin Brush, one of Thornton Wilder's most memorable characters. Brush, a traveling textbook salesman, is a fervent religious convert who is determined to lead a good life. With sad and sometimes hilarious consequences, his travels take him through smoking cars, bawdy houses, banks, and campgrounds from Texas to Illinois—and into the soul of Depression-era America itself. This special edition includes an updated afterword by Wilder’s nephew, Tappan Wilder, with illuminating material about the author and book.
Author | : Thornton Wilder |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780878055142 |
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Collected interviews with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and playwright most widely known today for his play, Our Town
Author | : Penelope Niven |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 791 |
Release | : 2012-10-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0062097776 |
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"Thornton Wilder: A Life brings readers face to face with the extraordinary man who made words come alive around the world, on the stage and on the page." —James Earl Jones, actor "Comprehensive and wisely fashioned….A splendid and long needed work." —Edward Albee, playwright Thornton Wilder—three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, creator of such enduring stage works as Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and beloved novels like Bridge of San Luis Ray and Theophilus North—was much more than a pivotal figure in twentieth century American theater and literature. He was a world-traveler, a student, a teacher, a soldier, an actor, a son, a brother, and a complex, intensely private man who kept his personal life a secret. In Thornton Wilder: A Life, author Penelope Niven pulls back the curtain to present a fascinating, three-dimensional portrait one of America's greatest playwrights, novelists, and literary icons.
Author | : Thornton Wilder |
Publisher | : New York Coward-McCann 1928. |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Art, Classical |
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Download The Angel that Troubled the Waters Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In his Foreword to The Angel That Troubled the Waters and Other Plays, published in 1928, Wilder explained that almost all the playlets in the book are religious, "but religious in that dilute fashion that is a believer's concession to a contemporary standard of good manners." He wanted to explore religious themes and questions without being preachy, or didactic ... In fact, it was often his intention in such playlets as this one to stand the biblical story on its head -to shake up the language, as it were. He also said--about his plays dealing with religious themes and stories--that in "these matters beyond logic, beauty is the only persuasion."--Www.throntonwilder.com.
Author | : Thornton Wilder |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1927 |
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Author | : Thornton Wilder |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2014-02-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0062232681 |
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“[Wilder's] finest and most beautiful novel. . . . Spanning two continents and several generations, it begins as a murder mystery and goes on to tell a story, at once dramatic and philosophical, about the range of human courage, aspirations, steadfastness, weakness, defeat and victory.” — New York Post This beautiful edition of Thornton Wilder’s renowned National Book Award–winning novel features a foreword by John Updike and an afterword by Tappan Wilder, who draws on unique sources as Wilder’s unpublished letters, handwritten annotations, and other illuminating documentary material. At once a murder mystery and a philosophical tale, The Eighth Day is a “suspenseful and deeply moving” (New York Times) work of classic stature that has been hailed as a great American epic. Set in a mining town in southern Illinois, the novels centers around two families blasted apart when the patriarch of one family, John Ashley, is accused of murdering his best friend. Ashley's miraculous jailbreak on the eve of his execution and his subsequent flight to South America trigger a powerful story tracing the fates of all those whose lives are forever changed by the tragedy: Ashley himself, his wife and children, and the wife and children of the victim.
Author | : Thornton Wilder |
Publisher | : Theatre Communications Grou |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781559361316 |
Download The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Volume One of the collected short plays by one of the greatest American playwrights of the Twentieth Century.