Author: Thornton Wilder
Publisher: HarperCollins
Keywords: novel, rey, luis, san, bridge
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2004-01-01
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0060580615
ISBN-13: 9780060580612

"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 of those who perished in the tragedy. His study leads to his own death -- and to the author’s timeless investigation into the nature of lo

Author: Thornton Wilder
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: novel, destination, heaven
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2003-09-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0060088893
ISBN-13: 9780060088897

Drawing on such unique sources as the author’s unpublished letters,business records, and obscure family recollections, Tappan Wilder’sAfterword adds a special dimension to the reissue of this hilarious tale about goodness in a fallen world.Meet George Marvin Brush -- Don Quixote come to Main Street in the Great Depression, and one of Thornton Wilder’s most memorable characters. George 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 ca

Author: Thornton Wilder
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Keywords: novel, day, eighth
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2007-01-01
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 0060088915
ISBN-13: 9780060088910

This new edition of Thornton Wilder’s renowned 1967 National Book Award–winning novel features a new foreword by John Updike and an afterword by Tappan Wilder, who draws on such unique sources as Wilder’s unpublished letters, handwritten annotations in the margins of the book, and other illuminating documentary material. In 1962 and 1963, Thornton Wilder spent twenty months in hibernation, away from family and friends, in the Rio Grande border town of Douglas, Arizona. While there, he launched The Eighth Day, a tale set in a mining town in southern Illinois about two familie

Author: Thornton Wilder
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Keywords: acts, four, farce, matchmaker
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2010-06-23
List price: $7.50
ISBN-10: 0573612226
ISBN-13: 9780573612220

Farce / Casting: 9m, 7f / Interior SceneryA 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 heart’s desire, the merchant finds himself affianced to the astute matchmaker herself. He who was so shrewd in business is putty in the hands of Dolly Levi. He

Author: Thornton Wilder
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: novel, north, theophilus
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2003-04-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0060088923
ISBN-13: 9780060088927

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 summer of 1926, Theophilus North gets as far as Newport, Rhode Island, before his car breaks down. To support himself, Theophilus takes jobs in

Author: Thornton Wilder
Publisher: HarperCollins
Keywords: acts, three, play, town
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2003-10-01
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0060535253
ISBN-13: 9780060535254

Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize–winning drama of life in the town of Grover’s Corners, an allegorical representation of all life, has become a classic. It is Thornton Wilder’s most renowned and most frequently performed play. It is now reissued in this handsome hardcover edition, featuring a new Foreword by Donald Margulies, who writes, "You are holding in your hands a great American play. Possibly the great American play." In addition, Tappan Wilder has written an eye-opening new Afterword, which includes Thornton WilderR

Authors:Thornton Wilder, J. D. McClatchy,
Publisher: Library of America
Keywords: theater, library, america, writings, plays, wilder, collected, thornton
Number of Pages: 800
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 1598530038
ISBN-13: 9781598530032

Tender, beguiling, suffused with feeling and wit, the remarkable plays of Thornton Wilder occupy a unique place in American culture. His most celebrated play, Our Town, has achieved iconic status as an expression of the spirit and pathos of small-town American life; adapted for the movies and the operatic stage, it continues to resonate with audiences responding to its formal elegance, plainspoken poetry, and moving evocation of the inevitability of loss. Collected Plays & Writings on Theater, the most comprehensive one-volume edition of Wilder’s work ever published, takes the me