"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. McClatchyA hilarious tale...
1000 tulosta hakusanalla Thornton Wilder.
" Our Town] leaves us with a sense of blessing, and the unspoken but palpable command to achieve gratitude in what remains of our days on earth." -- The New YorkerThornton Wilde...
The Cabala and the Woman of Andros: Two Novels
Thornton Wilder · ISBN 9780063097858
Julkaistu 2022 Kieli englanti nidottu
"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...
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder · ISBN 9780063114852
Julkaistu 2021 Kieli englanti nidottu
The authorized, original edition of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic with a foreword by acclaimed author Russell Banks and an afterword by Wilder's nephew, Tappa...
Our Town and the Cosmic One-Acts: The Long Christmas Dinner, the Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden, and Pullman Car Hiawatha
Thornton Wilder · ISBN 9780063465626
Julkaistu 2025 Kieli englanti nidottu
Our Town American Classics Edition: A Play in Three Acts
Thornton Wilder · ISBN 9780063496675
Julkaistu 2026 Kieli englanti nidottu
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder · ISBN 9780141184258
Julkaistu 2000 Kieli englanti pokkari
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 deat...
Finding the theatre of the 1920s lacking in bite and conviction, Thornton Wilder set out to bring back realism and to celebrate the innocent, simple and religious. Yet he also t...
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder · ISBN 9780486850351
Julkaistu 2023 Kieli englanti nidottu
In eighteenth-century Peru, a historic bridge connecting the cities of Cuzco and Lima collapses, plunging five people to their deaths. A Franciscan monk, Brother Juniper, witnes...
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. Pull...
Thornton Wilder referred to The Alcestiad as "a mixture of religious revival, mother-love-dynamite, and heroic daring-do." In it, he retells the ancient legend of Alcestis, Quee...
To his horror, the middle-aged Captain Gulliver finds himself marooned, dying of hunger and thirst in "The Country of The Young"--a world of youth so mistrustful of age that any...
The Rivers Under the Earth
Thornton Wilder · ISBN 9780573601118
Julkaistu 2014 Kieli englanti nidottu
This play is thought to represent middle-age, in Wilder's unfinished cycle of The Ages of Man. On a point of land jutting into a lake in southern Wisconsin, the Carter family en...
In Shakespeare and the Bible
Thornton Wilder · ISBN 9780573601125
Julkaistu 2014 Kieli englanti nidottu
Farce / Casting: 9m, 7f / Interior Scenery A certain old merchant of Yonkers is so rich in 1800 that he decides to take a wife. He employs a matchmaker a woman who subsequently...
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 fantas...
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 mot...
The Drunken Sisters is Wilder's satyr play that followed The Alcestiad, his adaptation of the ancient Greek "Alcestis" story. Apollo ventures into the land of the three sisters...
The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden
Thornton Wilder · ISBN 9780573622113
Julkaistu 2018 Kieli englanti nidottu
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....