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  | | Three Plays Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder Paperback, 480 Pages, Published 2020 by Harper Perennial Modern Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-06-297192-0, ISBN: 0-06-297192-1 "From celebrated Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Thornton Wilder, three of the greatest plays in American literature together in one volume.This omnibus edition brings together Wilder’s three best-known plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Matchmaker. In includes a preface by the author, as well as a foreword by playwright John Guare.Our Town, Wilder's timeless Pulitzer Prize-winning look at love, death, and destiny, opened on B ..." |
 | | Our Town A Play in Three Acts by Thornton Wilder Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2020 by Harper Perennial Modern Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-06-300399-6, ISBN: 0-06-300399-6 "“Wilder’s unfashionable insistence on embracing wonders as well as woe is both gallant and exhilarating. . . . [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.”―New Yorker A beautiful new edition of Thornton Wilder's most renowned play, the Pulitzer Prize-winning American classic, Our Town.This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the mythi ..." |
 | | Theophilus North(Reprint) A Novel (Harperperennial Modern Classics) by Thornton Wilder Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2019 by Harper Perennial Modern Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-06-241478-6, ISBN: 0-06-241478-X "This reissued edition of the classic novel by Pulitzer Prize-winner Thornton Wilder is the last of the author's works and features an updated Afterword by his nephew, Tappan Wilder, as well as additional material.The last of Wilder's works published during his lifetime, this novel is part autobiographical and part the imagined adventure of his twin brother who died at birth. Setting out to see the world in the summer of 1926, Theophilus ..." |
 | | The Bridge of San Luis Rey(Tie-In Edition) (Perennial Classics) by Thornton Wilder, Russell Banks Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2014 by Harper Perennial Modern Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-06-075750-2, ISBN: 0-06-075750-7 "This beautiful new edition of Thornton Wilder's classic novel features previously unpublished notes and other illuminating documentary material as well as an updated afterword by his nephew, Tappan Wilder, and a foreword by Russell Banks."On Friday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, one of the towering achievements in Am ..." |
 | | Three Plays(Reprint) Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Matchmaker (Perennial Classics) by Thornton Wilder, John Guare Paperback, 496 Pages, Published 2007 by Harper Perennial Modern Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-06-051264-4, ISBN: 0-06-051264-4 "From celebrated Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Thornton Wilder, three of the greatest plays in American literature together in one volume, now reissued with a beautiful new cover.This omnibus edition brings together Wilder’s three best-known plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Matchmaker. In includes a preface by the author, as well as a foreword by playwright John Guare.Our Town, Wilder's timeless Pulitzer Prize-winning look ..." |
 | | Our Town A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics) by Thornton Wilder, Donald Margulies Paperback, 181 Pages, Published 2003 by Harper Perennial Modern Classics Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-06-051263-7, ISBN: 0-06-051263-6 "Drama / 17m, 7f, extras / Bare Stage In an important publishing event, Samuel French, in cooperation with the Thornton Wilder estate is pleased to release the playwright's definitive version of Our Town. This edition of the play differs only slightly from previous acting editions, yet it presents the version of Our Town as Thornton Wilder wished it performed. Described by Edward Albee as "...the greatest American play ever written," th ..." |
 | | The Cabala and The Woman of Andros(Reprint) Two Novels (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Thornton Wilder, Penelope Niven Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2007 by Harper Perennial Modern Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-06-051857-8, ISBN: 0-06-051857-X "“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 BiographerFeaturing a foreword by Penelope Niven and a revealing afterword by Wilder’s nephew, Tappan, this reissue reintroduces the re ..." |
 | | The Skin of Our Teeth A Play (Perennial Classics) by Thornton Wilder, Paula Vogel Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2003 by Harper Perennial Modern Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-06-008893-4, ISBN: 0-06-008893-1 "A timeless statement about human foibles...and human endurance, The Skin of Our Teeth is Thornton Wilder’s brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning play, with an afterword by Wilder’s nephew, Tappan Wilder.Time magazine called The Skin of Our Teeth "a sort of Hellzapoppin' with brains," as it broke from established theatrical conventions and walked off with the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Best Drama. Combining farce, burlesque, and satire (among o ..." |
 | | The Bridge of San Luis Rey(1st Edition) (Perennial Classics) by Thornton Wilder, Russell Banks Paperback, 138 Pages, Published 2003 by Harper Perennial Modern Classics Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-06-008887-3, ISBN: 0-06-008887-7 "This beautiful new edition features unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary material, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder. "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 fic ..." |
 | | The Bridge of San Luis Rey(Reprint) (Perennial Classics) by Thornton Wilder Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 1998 by Perennial (Harpercollins) ISBN-13: 978-0-06-092986-2, ISBN: 0-06-092986-3 "The Bridge of San Luis Rey opens in the aftermath of an inexplicable tragedy--a tiny foot-bridge in Peru breaks, and five people hurtle to their deaths. For Brother Juniper, a humble monk who witnesses the catastrophe, the question in inescapable. Why those five? Suddenly, Brother Juniper is committed to discover what manner of lives they led--and whether it was divine intervention or a capricious fate that took their lives." |
 | | Our Town(Updated) by Thornton Wilder Paperback, 116 Pages, Published 2013 by Samuel French, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0-573-70150-4, ISBN: 0-573-70150-4 "Winner! 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Drama In an important publishing event, Samuel French, in cooperation with the Thornton Wilder estate is pleased to release the playwright's definitive version of "Our Town." This edition of the play differs only slightly from previous acting editions, yet it presents "Our Town" as Thornton Wilder wished it to be performed. Described by Edward Albee as ..".the greatest American play ever written," the st ..." |
 | | The Ides of March A Novel by Thornton Wilder, Jeremy Mccarter, Jr. Vonnegut Kurt Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2003 by Harper Perennial Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-06-008890-3, ISBN: 0-06-008890-7 "Drawing on such unique sources as Thornton Wilder's unpublished letters, journals, and selections from the extensive annotations Wilder made years later in the margins of the book, Tappan Wilder's Afterword adds a special dimension to the reissue of this internationally acclaimed novel.The Ides of March, first published in 1948, is a brilliant epistolary novel set in Julius Caesar's Rome. Thornton Wilder called it "a fantasia on certain ..." |
 | | Heaven's My Destination A Novel by Thornton Wilder, J. D. Mcclatchy Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2003 by Harper Perennial ISBN-13: 978-0-06-008889-7, ISBN: 0-06-008889-3 "“One of the most American books ever written. . . . Thornton Wilder’s best, and most unexpected, book.” –Wilfrid SheedMeet 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 Texa ..." |
 | | Theophilus North(30th Edition) A Novel by Thornton Wilder Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2003 by Harper Perennial Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-06-008892-7, ISBN: 0-06-008892-3 " Marking the thirtieth anniversary of Theophilus North, this beautiful new edition features Wilder's unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary material, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder. The last of Wilder's works published during his lifetime, this novel is part autobiographical and part the imagined adventure of his twin brother who died at birth. Setting out to see the world in ..." |
 | | Theophilus North(1st Edition) by Thornton Wilder Hardcover, 374 Pages, Published 1973 by Harper & Row ISBN-13: 978-0-06-014636-8, ISBN: 0-06-014636-2 "Marking the thirtieth anniversary of Theophilus North, this beautiful new edition features Wilder's unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary material, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder.The last of Wilder's works published during his lifetime, this novel is part autobiographical and part the imagined adventure of his twin brother who died at birth. Setting out to see the world in the s ..." |
 | | Famous American Plays of the 1940s - Skin of Our Teeth - home of the Brave - All by Thornton Wilder, Henry Hewes Paperback, 137 Pages, Published 1972 by Samuel French ISBN-13: 978-0-573-61548-1, ISBN: 0-573-61548-9 "Characters: 4 or 5 male, 4 or 5 female, plus many small parts w/doublingScenery: Interiors and ExteriorsWinner of the Pulitzer Prize, this is the groundbreaking satiric fantasy follows the extraordinary Antrobus family down through the ages from the time of "The War" surviving flood, fire, pestilence, locusts, the ice age, the pox and the double feature, a dozen subsequent wars and as many depressions. Ultimately, they are the stuff of ..." |
 | | Our Town(2nd Edition) A Play in Three Acts by Thornton Niven Wilder, Thorton Wilder, Debbiethornton Wilder Macomber Paperback, 118 Pages, Published 2010 by Samuel French, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0-573-61349-4, ISBN: 0-573-61349-4 |
 | | Theophilus North A Novel by Thornton Wilder 432 Pages, Published 2019 by Harpercollins ISBN-13: 978-0-06-294336-1, ISBN: 0-06-294336-7 "This edition features an updated afterword from Wilder’s nephew, Tappan Wilder, with illuminating material about the novelist, story and setting." |
 | | The Cabala; Bridge of San Luis Rey; Woman of Andros(1st Edition) (Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers) by Veronica Roth, Thornton Wilder, Wilder Thorton Hardcover, 544 Pages, Published 2012 by Katherine Tegen Books ISBN-13: 978-0-06-202404-6, ISBN: 0-06-202404-3 "每个选择都会帮助你，或者它会摧毁你。但每个选择必定都有结果，他们如同水面的涟漪，持续影响着做出选择的人的生活。在竭尽全力处理着由悲伤与宽恕、身份与忠诚、政治与爱情之间的矛盾带来的各种问题的同时，Tris Prior也必须设法解救那些她爱的人，以及她自己。万众期待的纽约时报畅销书作者维罗尼卡·罗斯，分歧者系列第二部，曲折、悲伤、浪漫，以及对人性的强大的见解，又一个令人陶醉又激动人心的故事！One choice can transform you—or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves—and herself—while grappling with haunting questio ..." |
 | | The Matchmaker A Farce in Four Acts by Thornton Wilder Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2010 by Samuel French, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0-573-61222-0, ISBN: 0-573-61222-6 "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 becomes involved with two of his menial clerks, assorted young and lovely ladies, and the headwaiter at an expensive restaurant where this swift farce runs headlong into a hilarious complications. After everyone gets straightened out romantically and has his hear ..." |
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