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The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Author : Thornton Niven Wilder
Publisher : Aegitas
ISBN 13 : 0369408888
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (694 download)

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Download or read book The Bridge of San Luis Rey written by Thornton Niven Wilder and published by Aegitas. This book was released on 2022-12-19 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story is based on a fictional disaster that occurred in Peru on July 20, 1714. A rope bridge woven by the Incas on the road between Lima and Cuzco collapsed when five people were crossing it. They all fell into the river from a great height and were killed. Brother Juniper, a Franciscan friar who was about to cross the bridge himself, witnessed the tragedy. Being deeply pious, he saw in what happened a possible divine providence. Did the dead deserve to have their lives cut short in such a terrible way? The monk tries to learn as much as he can about the five victims, finding and questioning people who knew them. As a result of years of investigation, he compiles a voluminous book with all the evidence he has gathered that the beginning and end of human life are part of God's plan... The Bridge of San Luis Rey won the 1928 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, and remains widely acclaimed as Wilder's most famous work. In 1998, the book was rated number 37 by the editorial board of the American Modern Library on the list of the 100 best 20th-century novels. Time magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bridge of San Luis Rey written by Thornton Wilder and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Heaven's My Destination

Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 006308015X
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Heaven's My Destination written by Thornton Wilder and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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.

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Bridge of San Luis Rey written by Thornton Wilder and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-19 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 goes about inquiring into the lives of the victims, seeking some sort of cosmic answer to the question of why each had to die.

Thornton Wilder

Author : Penelope Niven
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062097776
Total Pages : 791 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Thornton Wilder written by Penelope Niven and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 791 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Love is Enough

Author : William Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Love is Enough written by William Morris and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Conversations with Thornton Wilder

Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9780878055142
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (551 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Thornton Wilder written by Thornton Wilder and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1992 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected interviews with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and playwright most widely known today for his play, Our Town

Theophilus North

Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062943367
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Theophilus North written by Thornton Wilder and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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 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 car breaks down. To support himself, Theophilus takes jobs in the elegant mansions along Ocean Drive, just as Wilder himself did in the same decade. Soon the young man finds himself playing the roles of tutor, tennis coach, spy, confidant, lover, friend and enemy as he becomes entangled in adventure and intrigue in Newport’s fabulous addresses, as well as in its local boarding houses, restaurants, dives and military barracks. Narrated by the elderly North from a distance of fifty years, Theophilus North is a fascinating commentary on youth and education from the vantage point of age, and deftly displays Wilder’s trademark wit juxtaposed with his lively and timeless ruminations on what really matters, at the end of the day, about life, love, and work.

The Cabala and The Woman of Andros

Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062232657
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book The Cabala and The Woman of Andros written by Thornton Wilder and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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 Wilder’s genius.” — Penelope Niven, Thornton Wilder Biographer Two early novels by the American master with a foreword by Penelope Niven and afterword with documentary material by the author's nephew, Tappan Wilder. The Cabala, Thornton Wilder's first novel, tells the story of a young American student who spends a year in the exotic world of post-World War I Rome. While there, he experiences firsthand the waning days of a secret community (a "cabala") of decaying royalty, a great cardinal of the Roman Church, and an assortment of memorable American ex-pats. This semiautobiographical novel of unforgettable characters and human passions launched Wilder's career as a celebrated storyteller and dramatist. The Woman of Andros, set on the obscure Greek island of Brynos before the birth of Christ, explores universal questions of what is precious about life and how we live, love, and die. Eight years later, Wilder would pose those same questions on the stage in a play titled Our Town, also set in an obscure location, this time a village in New Hampshire. The Woman of Andros is celebrated for some of the most beautiful writing in American literature.

The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder

Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062046012
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder written by Thornton Wilder and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 dramatist—rare talents on glorious display in this volume of more than three hundred letters he penned to a vast array of famous friends and beloved relatives. Through Wilder's correspondence, readers can eavesdrop on his conversations with Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Noël Coward, Gene Tunney, Laurence Olivier, Aaron Copland, Paul Hindemith, Leonard Bernstein, Edward Albee, and Mia Farrow. Equally absorbing are Wilder's intimate letters to his family. Wilder tells of roller-skating with Walt Disney, remembers an inaugural reception for FDR at the White House, describes his life as a soldier in two World Wars, and recalls dining out with Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. In these pages, Thornton Wilder speaks for himself in his own unique, enduring voice—informing, encouraging, instructing, and entertaining with his characteristic wit, heart, and exuberance.

The Woman of Andros

Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher : Novels
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Woman of Andros written by Thornton Wilder and published by Novels. This book was released on 1930 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder

Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher : Theatre Communications Grou
ISBN 13 : 9781559361484
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder written by Thornton Wilder and published by Theatre Communications Grou. This book was released on 1997 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume II of Wilder's collected plays includes "The Angel That Troubled the Waters, Our Century, The Unerring Instinct", and "The Alcestiad, or a Life in the Sun", a little-known retelling of an ancient Greek legend.

The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder

Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher : Theatre Communications Grou
ISBN 13 : 9781559361316
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder written by Thornton Wilder and published by Theatre Communications Grou. This book was released on 1997 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume One of the collected short plays by one of the greatest American playwrights of the Twentieth Century.

The Eighth Day

Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062232681
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book The Eighth Day written by Thornton Wilder and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[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.

The Skin of Our Teeth

Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573615481
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book The Skin of Our Teeth written by Thornton Wilder and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1972 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An Eternal Family narrowly escape one disaster after another, from ancient times to the present. Meet George and Maggie Antrobus (married only 5,000 years); their two children, Gladys and Henry (perfect in every way!); and their maid, Sabina (the ageless vamp) as they overcome ice, flood, and war -- by the skin of their teeth."--Amazon

The Making of The President 1960

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of The President 1960 written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nabokov and Indeterminacy

Author : Priscilla Meyer
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810137431
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Nabokov and Indeterminacy written by Priscilla Meyer and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Nabokov and Indeterminacy, Priscilla Meyer shows how Vladimir Nabokov’s early novel The Real Life of Sebastian Knight illuminates his later work. Meyer first focuses on Sebastian Knight, exploring how Nabokov associates his characters with systems of subtextual references to Russian, British, and American literary and philosophical works. She then turns to Lolita and Pale Fire, applying these insights to show that these later novels clearly differentiate the characters through subtextual references, and that Sebastian Knight’s construction models that of Pale Fire. Meyer argues that the dialogue Nabokov constructs among subtexts explores his central concern: the continued existence of the spirit beyond bodily death. She suggests that because Nabokov’s art was a quest for an unattainable knowledge of the otherworldly, knowledge which can never be conclusive, Nabokov’s novels are never closed in plot, theme, or resolution—they take as their hidden theme the unfinalizability that Bakhtin says characterizes all novels. The conclusions of Nabokov's novels demand a rereading, and each rereading yields a different novel. The reader can never get back to the same beginning, never attain a conclusion, and instead becomes an adept of Nabokov’s quest. Meyer emphasizes that, unlike much postmodern fiction, the contradictions created by Nabokov’s multiple paths do not imply that existence is constructed arbitrarily of pre-existing fragments, but rather that these fragments lead to an ever-deepening approach to the unknowable.