Thornton Wilder
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"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...
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Series
Publisher
Perennial Classics
Pub. Date
1998, c1938
Edition
1st Perennial Classics ed.
Physical Desc
121 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
This beautiful new edition features an eye-opening Afterword written by Tappan Wilder that includes Thornton Wilder's unpublished notes and other illuminating photographs and documentary material. Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the small village of Grover's Corners, an allegorical representation of all life, has become a classic. It is Thornton Wilder's most renowned...
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Series
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1973]
Edition
[1st ed.]
Physical Desc
374 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The 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 an updated afterword from Wilder's nephew, Tappan Wilder, with illuminating material about the novelist, story and setting.
Setting out to see the world in the summer of 1926, Theophilus North gets as far as Newport, Rhode Island, before his...
Publisher
New Line Home Entertaintment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Five people are killed in a freak accident when a lofty rope bridge collapses. A priest journeys to discover if there was a divine reason for the bloody disaster. Set in Lima, Peru, during the 18th century and based on the Thornton Wilder novel.
6) Our town
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Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005, c2003
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Presents the Masterpiece Theatre production of Thornton Wilder's play "Our Town," in which Emily Webb, a young wife in Grover's Corner, New Hampshire, in the early twentieth century, realizes too late the importance of savoring every moment of life.