Thornton Wilder
Author
Series
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Perennial Classics
Pub. Date
1998, c1938
Edition
1st Perennial Classics ed.
Physical Desc
121 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Our Town explores the relationship between two young neighbors, George Gibbs and Emily Webb, whose childhood friendship blossoms into romance, and then culminates in marriage. When Emily loses her life during childbirth, the circle of life portrayed in each of the three acts--childhood, adulthood, and death--is fully realized. Widely considered one of the greatest American plays of all time, Our Town debuted on Broadway in 1938 and continues to be...
4) Our town
Series
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.
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.