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Thornton Wilder
In The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder weaves a poignant tale of love, fate and the human condition. Set in colonial Peru, the sudden collapse
of a bridge…
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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…
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Originally published: New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1938.
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…
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…
Known today primarily as the author of Our Town, probably America’s most beloved and widely produced play, Thornton Wilder is the only writer ever to be honored with Pulitzer Prizes…
Penelope Niven
The definitive, and only available, biography of one of the greatest American playwrights, novelists, and literary icons–and the first based on unprecedented access to the writer’s papers, including private family…
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Thomas S. Hischak
This encyclopedia exhaustively covers Thornton Wilder, one of America’s greatest writers. It features a biography of Wilder’s life and career, followed by entries that cover the people who worked with…
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…
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…
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…
This play is a rewritten version of the play The merchant of Yonkers which was directed in 1938 … –P. [4].
Published: c1997, The Wilder Family LLC.
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…
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Walbeck, a thoroughly hated man who cheated hundreds of people out of their money, suddenly returns home from Joliet prison when his sentence is reduced. He is greeted by two…
A symbolical play about a man named Francis who bears an unspeakable burden of sin and who is now plighted to Lady Poverty– a crazy woman who once knew a…
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…
The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel. It was first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928…
Thornton Wilder Comedy Characters: 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…
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…
A ringing of doorbells. A mother-daughter team of con-artists target a wheelchair-bound widow who, wise to their game, concocts a cunning scheme of her own.
Characters: 4 or 5 male, 4 or 5 female, plus many small parts w/doubling Scenery: Interiors and Exteriors Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this is the groundbreaking satiric fantasy follows…
Life in a small New Hampshire town during the early 1900s.
A hardcover editon of this book was published in 1967 by The Union & New Haven Trust Company –T.p. verso.
Loud, slap dash and uproarious…extraordinarily original and funny.–New York Times
Now, for the first time in a standalone edition, Thornton Wilder’s brilliant, hilarious play which was adapted into the hit…
Meet one of Wilder’s most memorable characters–his famous take on Don Quixote come to Main Street in the Great Depression–George Marvin Brush, traveling textbook salesman.
Written by Wilder less than a month after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, [this play] broke from established theatrical conventions of nostalgia and sentiment and walked off with the…
Wilder’s series of short works that captures four important stages of life.
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…
The second and concluding volume of Thornton Wilder’s short plays.
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…
Among these plays [Wilder’s most famous one-acts] we encounter a first glimpse of Wilder’s Stage Manager, his use of pantomime, minimal scenery and farce, as well as his signature connection…
First published in 1948, The Ides of March is a brilliant epistolary novel set in the Rome of Julius Caesar. Through imaginary letters and documents, Wilder brings to life a…
First produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim, this is a Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the small village of Grover’s Corners. It is an allegorical representation of…
A hardcover edition of this book was originally published in 1927 by Albeert & Charles Boni, Inc. It is reprinted here by arrangement with the Wilder Family LLC –Title page…
An ancient bridge collapses over a gorge in Peru, hurling five people into the abyss. It seems a meaningless human tragedy. But one witness, a Franciscan monk, believes the deaths…
First produced and published in 1938, this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama is a timeless American classic, rich with universal themes.
An illustrated hardcover edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, first produced in 1938, follows the changes that gradually occur in the lives of two early-twentieth-century New Hampshire families and their…
An extremely entertaining array of American life in a bygone era. – New Yorker
The last of Thornton Wilder’s works published during his lifetime, Theophilus North is part autobiographical and…
Originally published: New York: Harper & Row, 1957.
A collection of Wilder’s drama: Our Town searches for a value above all price for the smallest events in our daily life; The Skin of Our Teeth depicts the events…
A Franciscan monk, Brother Juniper, witnesses the collapse of a historic bridge, plunging five people to their deaths, and embarks on a spiritual quest to reconcile free will versus divine…
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A collection of six short plays by one of the greatest American playwrights of the 20th century.
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"The Cabala" by way of Thornton Wilder, is a singular that delves into the complexities of human relationships and the search for which means in lifestyles. Wilder, an American playwright…
