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
Authors:Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer, Robin Gibbs Wilde
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: wilder, thornton, letters, selected
Number of Pages: 768
Published: 2009-12-01
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0060765089
ISBN-13: 9780060765088
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
Author: William Anderson
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Keywords: laura, wilder, ingalls, books, life, country, people, places
Number of Pages: 119
Published: 1990-11-21
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0060973463
ISBN-13: 9780060973469
Laura Ingalls Wilder Country takes the millions of fans of the Little House books and the hit TV series on an enchanting tour of the real world of the well-loved author, visiting the people and places
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: S. Wilder
Publisher: Samuel French Trade
Keywords: one, comedy, infancy
Published: 1961-06
List price: $2.00
ISBN-10: 0573622396
ISBN-13: 9780573622397
Author: Eric Wilder
Publisher: lulu.com
Keywords: easy
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2007-05-09
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 1847283381
ISBN-13: 9781847283382
Someone is killing New Orleans street people and this is hurting the City’s tourist trade just beginning to recover from Hurricane’s Katrina and Rita. More than just simple acts of murder, voodoo is involved, the killer possibly an actual Vodoun deity. Homicide detective Tony Nicosia seeks the help of Wyatt Thomas, the City’s foremost expert on the often-secret side of the Big Easy. Wyatt enlists the aid of Mama Mulate, Tulane English professor, and an actual voodoo mambo, to assist him. Together, they unravel the strangest mystery to hit the venerable City since Marie Lav
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
