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  • A Doll's House by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    A Doll's House

    An adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's most notable play about a waning marriage, and the social constructs between a husband and wife. Thornton Wilder's acting version of A Doll's House premiered on Broadway at the Morsco Theatre in December 1937, under the direction of Jed...
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  • A Ringing of Doorbells by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    A Ringing of Doorbells

    Author: Thornton WilderISBN-10: 0573601097ISBN-13: 9780573601095Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 12/31/2014Pages: 28Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.08lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.06d
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  • American Characteristics and Other Essays by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    American Characteristics and Other Essays

    Author: Thornton WilderISBN-10: 158348387XISBN-13: 9781583483879Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2000Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.72d
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  • Childhood by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    Childhood

    Thornton WilderComedyCharacters: 2 male, 3 female In this provocative, sometimes chilling comedy, Wilder renders a child's-eye view of the grown-up world, as a father, a mother and their three children play a revealing game of make-believe in which the children pretend to be orphans....
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  • Heaven's My Destination by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    Heaven's My Destination

    "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. McClatchyA hilarious tale about goodness in a fallen world, Heaven's My Destination introduces George Marvin Brush, one of Thornton Wilder's...
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  • Infancy by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    Infancy

    Millie the nursemaid brings baby Tommy to Central Park in the hopes of a rendezvous with the handsome Patrolman Avonzino. Mrs. Boker soon arrives with baby Moe, and as the two ladies trade snacks and advice on child rearing, the infants compare notes on...
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  • Matchmaker by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    Matchmaker

    Farce / Casting: 9m, 7f / Interior SceneryA certain old merchant of Yonkers is so rich in 1800 that he decides to take a wife. He employs a matchmaker a woman who subsequently becomes involved with two of his menial clerks, assorted young and...
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  • Our Town by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    Our Town

    Winner 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Drama In an important publishing event, Samuel French, in cooperation with the Thornton Wilder estate is pleased to release the playwright's definitive version of Our Town. This edition of the play differs only slightly from previous acting editions, yet...
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  • Our Town: A Play in Three Acts by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    Our Town: A Play in Three Acts

    "[Our Town] leaves us with a sense of blessing, and the unspoken but palpable command to achieve gratitude in what remains of our days on earth." -- The New YorkerThornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the mythical village of Grover's Corners, New...
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  • Our Town: A Play in Three Acts by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    Our Town: A Play in Three Acts

    "[Our Town] leaves us with a sense of blessing, and the unspoken but palpable command to achieve gratitude in what remains of our days on earth."-- New YorkerThornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the mythical village of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire--an allegorical...
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  • Our Town: A Play in Three Acts by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    Our Town: A Play in Three Acts

    " Our Town] leaves us with a sense of blessing, and the unspoken but palpable command to achieve gratitude in what remains of our days on earth." -- The New YorkerThornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the mythical village of Grover's Corners,...
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  • Pullman Car Hiawatha - A Play in One Act by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    Pullman Car Hiawatha - A Play in One Act

    This one-act comedy, set in a Pullman car on a train traveling from New York to Chicago in December, 1930, introduces techniques Wilder would use in future three-act plays. Pullman Car takes us on a metaphorical journey by train through the American landscape, a...
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  • Queens of France by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    Queens of France

    In New Orleans in 1869, M'su Cahusac, a charlatan of a lawyer, preys on vulnerable women, convincing each one that she is a legitimate descendant of the long-lost Dauphin, who fled Paris for New Orleans at the age of 10 during the French Revolution....
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  • The Ages of Man by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    The Ages of Man

    Welcome to a new collection of Thornton Wilder's last plays - a series of one-acts that were part of his extravagantly ambitious project to creat two one-act play cycles based on the Deadly Sins and the Ages of Man. Published for the first time...
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  • The Alcestiad by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    The Alcestiad

    Thornton Wilder referred to The Alcestiad as "a mixture of religious revival, mother-love-dynamite, and heroic daring-do." In it, he retells the ancient legend of Alcestis, Queen of Thessaly, who gave her life for her husband Admetus, beloved of Apollo, and was brought back from...
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  • The Beaux' Stratagem by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    The Beaux' Stratagem

    From the play by George FarquharComedyCharacters: 8 male, 5female, with doubling Various Locations The play tells the story of two young bucks who, having spent all their money by living too well, leave London and roam from town to town in search of love...
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  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    The Bridge of San Luis Rey

    The authorized, original edition of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic with a foreword by acclaimed author Russell Banks and an afterword by Wilder's nephew, Tappan Wilder, with illuminating documentary material about the novel and its rich literary history."As close to perfect a moral fable...
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  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    The Bridge of San Luis Rey

    In eighteenth-century Peru, a historic bridge connecting the cities of Cuzco and Lima collapses, plunging five people to their deaths. A Franciscan monk, Brother Juniper, witnesses the tragedy and embarks on a spiritual quest to reconcile free will versus fate and the existence of...
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  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    The Bridge of San Luis Rey

    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...
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  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    The Bridge of San Luis Rey

    The Bridge of San Luis Rey tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the bridge. A friar who witnesses the accident then...
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  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    The Bridge of San Luis Rey

    2023 Reprint of the 1927 U.S. Edition. Set in 18th century Lima, Peru, a rickety bridge which has spanned a deep gorge for ages suddenly breaks, and five people plunge to their deaths. A priest who is deeply affected by the catastrophe decides to...
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  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    The Bridge of San Luis Rey

    The Bridge of San Luis Rey tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the bridge. A friar who witnesses the accident then...
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  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    The Bridge of San Luis Rey

    First published in 1927 and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1928, "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" is the moving story of a tragic accident and its aftermath by American author Thornton Wilder. The novel tells the fictional story of the victims of...
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  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    The Bridge of San Luis Rey

    First published in 1927 and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1928, "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" is the moving story of a tragic accident and its aftermath by American author Thornton Wilder. The novel tells the fictional story of the victims of...
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  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    The Bridge of San Luis Rey

    A spare and haunting novel that won the Pulitzer Prize and has informed how literature addressed tragedy ever since its initial publication in 1927In eighteenth-century Peru, a rope bridge collapses, dropping five people to tragic deaths in the gorge below. In the aftermath, Brother...
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  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    The Bridge of San Luis Rey

    First published in 1927 and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1928, "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" is the moving story of a tragic accident and its aftermath by American author Thornton Wilder. The novel tells the fictional story of the victims of...
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  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    The Bridge of San Luis Rey

    The story centers on a fictional event that happened in Peru on the road between Lima and Cuzco, at noon on Friday, July the twentieth, 1714. A rope bridge woven by the Inca a century earlier collapsed at that particular moment, while five people...
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  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    The Bridge of San Luis Rey

    In Lima, Peru, an ancient Incan rope bridge breaks and plunges five people to their deaths. A Franciscan monk witnesses it and decides to investigate the lives of the five people, in order to prove that God is just, that He had a purpose...
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  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    The Bridge of San Luis Rey

    Five people are killed when a heavily-traveled rope bridge in Peru collapses. Brother Juniper, a Franciscan friar, witnesses this event and this sets him on a quest: Who were each of these individuals? Why do unfortunate events happen to innocent or undeserving people? What...
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  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey: Large Print Edition by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    The Bridge of San Luis Rey: Large Print Edition

    The Bridge of San Luis Rey tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the bridge. A friar who witnesses the accident then...
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  • The Cabala by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    The Cabala

    Ironic and self-ironic, unapologetically literary, urbane and heady. Reads, for the most part, like Woolf or Forster, occasionally reaching wry delights: "When the bourgeoisie discovered that she was accepting invitations there was a tumult as of many waters."This is a book where you get...
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  • The Cabala and the Woman of Andros: Two Novels by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    The Cabala and the Woman of Andros: Two Novels

    "For much of the twentieth century, these remarkable early novels were hidden in the great shadow of The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Now we can examine them in the spotlight for the gifts that they are--memorable monuments to style and keys to understanding...
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  • The Drunken Sisters by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    The Drunken Sisters

    The Drunken Sisters is Wilder's satyr play that followed The Alcestiad, his adaptation of the ancient Greek "Alcestis" story. Apollo ventures into the land of the three sisters of Fate who control the threads of each man's life, and here in disguise he tricks...
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  • The Eighth Day by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    The Eighth Day

    "[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...
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  • The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden

    A father, mother and two of their three surviving children drive from Newark, New Jersey to Camden to visit their married daughter, who has recently lost her baby in childbirth. Their journey is punctuated by talk, laughter, memories (some mundane, some happy, some painful),...
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  • The Ides of March by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    The Ides of March

    The classic Thornton Wilder novel that recreates the dazzling ancient Roman empire of Julius Caesar--now with a new introduction by Jeremy McCarter, author of Young Radicals and co-author (with Lin-Manuel Miranda) of the #1 New York Times bestseller Hamilton: The Revolution. First published in...
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  • The Ides of March by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    The Ides of March

    "Mr. Wilder has brought to his character the warmth which was totally lacking in the Caesar of schoolbooks and Shakespeare, and in his hero's destruction there is the true catharsis." --Edward Weeks, AtlanticFirst published in 1948, The Ides of March is a brilliant epistolary...
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  • The Long Christmas Dinner and Other Plays in One Act by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    The Long Christmas Dinner and Other Plays in One Act

    A collection of six short plays by one of the greatest American playwrights of the 20th century. Renowned for his masterful gift for revealing the miraculous in the seemingly mundane, these short plays showcase Thornton Wilder's ability to examine American life, death, and all...
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  • The Matchmaker: A Farce in Four Acts by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    The Matchmaker: A Farce in Four Acts

    "Loud, slap dash and uproarious...extraordinarily original and funny."--New York TimesNow, for the first time in a standalone edition, Thornton Wilder's brilliant, hilarious play which was adapted into the hit Broadway musical Hello, Dolly with an afterword by Wilder's nephew, Tappan Wilder.Horace Vandergelder, a wealthy...
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  • The Rivers Under the Earth by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    The Rivers Under the Earth

    This play is thought to represent middle-age, in Wilder's unfinished cycle of The Ages of Man. On a point of land jutting into a lake in southern Wisconsin, the Carter family enjoys a summer's eve. It's an evening like many others: Nothing happens and...
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  • The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder

    Spanning his entire life, The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder is a comprehensive and fascinating collection of the great American writer's correspondence. The author of such classics as Our Town and The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder was a born storyteller and...
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  • The Seven Deadly Sins by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    The Seven Deadly Sins

    Welcome to a new collection of Thornton Wilder's last plays - a series of one acts that were part of his extravagantly ambitious project to creat two one act play cycles based on the Deadly Sins and the Ages of Man. Published for the...
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  • The Skin of Our Teeth by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    The Skin of Our Teeth

    Meet George and Maggie Antrobus of Excelsior, New Jersey, a suburban, commuter-town couple (married for 5,000 years), who bear more than a casual resemblance to that first husband and wife, Adam and Eve: the two Antrobus children, Gladys (perfect in every way, of course)...
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  • The Skin of Our Teeth: A Play by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    The Skin of Our Teeth: A Play

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize"Wilder has become a prophet again, searching for values that make humanity worth saving, in a world constantly on the verge of being destroyed either by pitiless nature or by human rage, selfishness, and folly." --Michael Feingold, Village VoiceA timeless...
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  • Theophilus North by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    Theophilus North

    "An extremely entertaining array of American life in a bygone era." -- New YorkerThe last of Thornton Wilder's works published during his lifetime, Theophilus North is part autobiographical and part the imagined adventures of Wilder's twin brother who died at birth. This edition features...
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  • Thornton Wilder's Playlets by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    Thornton Wilder's Playlets

    This anthology by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Thornton Wilder is a collection of twenty-two very short plays, three of which are published here for the very first time. These snapshots of the creative spirit at play explore a variety of complex characters that range from...
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  • Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays & Writings on Theater (Loa #172) by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays & Writings on Theater (Loa #172)

    Collected Plays and Writings on Theater, the most comprehensive one-volume edition of Thornton Wilder's work for the stage ever published, takes the measure of his extraordinary career as a dramatist by presenting the complete span of his achievement, beginning with his early expressionist experiments...
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  • Thornton Wilder: The Eighth Day, Theophilus North, Autobiographical Writings (Loa #224) by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    Thornton Wilder: The Eighth Day, Theophilus North, Autobiographical Writings (Loa #224)

    "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...
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  • Three Plays: Our Town, the Skin of Our Teeth, and the Matchmaker by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    Three Plays: Our Town, the Skin of Our Teeth, and the Matchmaker

    "Thornton Wilder will survive. . . as long as there are people around who are willing to sit in something called a theater and be reminded of their common humanity." --New York TimesFrom celebrated Pulitzer Prize-winning author and playwright Thornton Wilder, three of the...
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  • Wilder's Classic One Acts by Wilder, Thornton
    Thornton Wilder

    Wilder's Classic One Acts

    This collection of Wilder's most famous one act plays includes, The Long Christmas Dinner, The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden, Pullman Car Hiawatha, Queens of France, Such Things Only Happen in Books, and Love and How to Cure It. In these mini-masterpieces, Wilder...
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