Thornton Wilder
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Set in 18th century Lima, Peru, a rickety bridge which has spanned a deep gorge for ages suddenly breaks, and five people plunge to their deaths. A priest who is deeply affected by the catastrophe decides to make an investigative study of the lives of the victims to determine if he can find some clue to God's intention in casting five dis-associated mortals into eternity at precisely the same moment.
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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...
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Thornton Wilder's renowned 1967 National Book Award–winning novel features a foreword by John Updike and an afterword by Tappan Wilder, who draws on such unique sources as Wilder's unpublished letters, handwritten annotations in the margins of the book, and other illuminating documentary material.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 town of Douglas, Arizona. While there, he launched...
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2003
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First published in 1948, The Ides of March is a brilliant epistolary novel of the Rome of Julius Caesar. Through imaginary letters and documents, Wilder brings to life a dramatic period of world history and one of its magnetic personalities.
In this novel, the Caesar of history becomes Caesar the human being as he appeared to his family, his legions, his Rome, and his empire in the months just before his death. In Wilder's inventive narrative, all...
6) Our Town
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c1938
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Illuminating that which is extra-ordinary about the ordinary aspects of daily life---one of the most unforgettable plays of this century.
10) Our town
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c2003
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Stage production of Wilder's play; a study of life, love, and death in a New England town at the turn of the 20th century.
11) Hello, Dolly!
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2003.
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Musical set in the 1890's about a professional matchmaker who meets her match.
13) The matchmaker
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1958.
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Adaptation of Thornton Wilder's hit Broadway play about a matchmaker who sets out to make her own match.
14) Our town
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[2003]
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Stage production of Wilder's play; a study of life, love, and death in a New England town at the turn of the 20th century.
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2006.
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Joseph Cotten stars as Uncle Charlie, a calculating and charming killer who hides out in his relatives' small hometown. There, he befriends his favorite niece and namesake, Young Charlie. But she begins to suspect he may be the famed Merry Widow murderer. A deadly game of cat and mouse ensues as the psychopathic killer plots the death of his young niece to protect his secret.
17) Hello, Dolly
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[2003]
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Musical set in the 1890's about a professional matchmaker who meets her match.
18) Hello, Dolly
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c2003
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Musical set in the 1890's about a professional matchmaker who meets her match.
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