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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.

Three Plays - Absurd Person Singular, Absent Friends, Bedroom Farce

Author : Alan Ayckbourn
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448129605
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Three Plays - Absurd Person Singular, Absent Friends, Bedroom Farce written by Alan Ayckbourn and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'What is remarkable about Alan Ayckbourn's comedy is that it contrives to be simultaneously hilarious and harrowing. Literally, it is agonisingly funny' Daily Telegraph In Three Plays Ayckbourn's perfectly pitched dialogue slices into the soul of suburbia. The settings are simple - a kitchen, a bedroom, a party - but the relationships between the husbands and wives are more complicated. Fraught relationships are exposed with humour, bathos and a sharp understanding of human nature.

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.

Three Plays by Thornton Wilder

Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher : Everbind
ISBN 13 : 9780884831457
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Three Plays by Thornton Wilder written by Thornton Wilder and published by Everbind. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This omnibus volume brings together the definitive texts of three outstanding plays by one of America's mot distinguished writers. Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Matchmaker.

Another Day's Begun

Author : Howard Sherman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350123463
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Another Day's Begun written by Howard Sherman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A work of startling originality when it debuted in 1938, Thornton Wilder's Our Town evolved to be seen by some as a vintage slice of early 20th Century Americana, rather than being fully appreciated for its complex and eternal themes and its deceptively simple form. This unique and timely book shines a light on the play's continued impact in the 21st century and makes a case for the healing powers of Wilder's text to a world confronting multiple crises. Through extensive interviews with more than 100 artists about their own experience of the play and its impact on them professionally and personally – and including background on the play's early years and its pervasiveness in American culture – Another Day's Begun shows why this particular work remains so important, essential, and beloved. Every production of Our Town has a story to tell beyond Wilder's own. One year after the tragedy of 9/11, Paul Newman, in his final stage appearance, played the Stage Manager in Our Town on Broadway. Director David Cromer's 2008 Chicago interpretation would play in five more cities, ultimately becoming New York's longest-running Our Town ever. In 2013, incarcerated men at Sing Sing Correctional Facility brought Grover's Corners inside a maximum security prison. After the 2017 arena bombing in Manchester UK, the Royal Exchange Theatre chose Our Town as its offering to the stricken community. 80 years after it was written, more than 110 years after its actions take place, Our Town continues to assert itself as an essential play about how we must embrace and appreciate the value of life itself. Another Day's Begun explains how this American classic has the power to inspire, heal and endure in the modern day, onstage and beyond.

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

Three Plays

Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063060108
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Three Plays written by Thornton Wilder and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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 Times From celebrated Pulitzer Prize-winning author and playwright Thornton Wilder, three of the greatest plays in American literature together in one volume: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Matchmaker. This essential compendium includes a preface by the author, as well as a foreword by playwright John Guare. Our Town, Wilder's timeless Pulitzer Prize-winning classic about love, death, and destiny, opened on Broadway in 1938 and continues to be celebrated and performed on stages all around the world. The Skin of our Teeth, Wilder's brilliant and enduring romp about human follies and human endurance starring the Antrobus family of Excelsior, New Jersey, earned Wilder his third Pulitzer Prize in 1943. The Matchmaker, a dazzling farce about money and love, stars the irrepressible busybody Dolly Gallagher Levi, who leads young and old on an adventure that changes their lives. It was later adapted into the famed musical Hello, Dolly!

Three Plays

Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Three Plays written by Thornton Wilder and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 0 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

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

Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher : Library of America Thornton Wi
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays & Writings on Theater (LOA #172) written by Thornton Wilder and published by Library of America Thornton Wi. This book was released on 2007-03-15 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our town -- The skin of our teeth -- The matchmaker -- The Alcestiad -- The drunken sisters -- The marriage we deplore -- The unerring instinct -- Scenes from The emporium -- Plays for Bleecker Street -- The seven ages of man -- Writings on theater.

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.

Three Plays

Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (141 download)

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Download or read book Three Plays written by Thornton Wilder and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Theophilus North

Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062943367
Total Pages : 432 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 432 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.

Three Plays by Thornton Wilder

Author : Thornton Niven Wilder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (929 download)

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Download or read book Three Plays by Thornton Wilder written by Thornton Niven Wilder and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Enthusiast

Author : Gilbert A. Harrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (835 download)

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Download or read book The Enthusiast written by Gilbert A. Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Three Plays by Thornton Wilder (Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Matchmaker).

Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Three Plays by Thornton Wilder (Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Matchmaker). written by Thornton Wilder and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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.