Wilder, Thornton
Summary: This beautiful new edition features unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary material, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder.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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial Library 1986
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILWilder, Thornton
Summary: George Marvin Brush, a traveling textbook salesman, is determined to lead a virtuous life, despite peddling his wares in less than virtuous places during the Great Depression.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILWilder, Thornton
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 2007
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Wilder, Thornton
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Wilder, Thornton
Summary: The author's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama portrays life in a small New Hampshire town during the early 1900s.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial Library 1985
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Wilder, Thornton
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1927
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Wilder, Thornton
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1973
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILWilder, Thornton
Summary: This beautiful new edition features unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary material, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder.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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILWilder, Thornton
Summary: Recreates the final months of Caesar's life by using imaginary documents, letters, and journal entries from the major historical figures surrounding him, including Catullus, Cleopatra, and Cicero.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILWilder, Thornton
Summary: A play in three acts portraying life in Grover's Corner, New Hampshire, in the early 1900's through the routine daily events and the major moments in the lives of George Gibbs, Emily Webb, and their families; and how their lives, although mundane, are touched by the universal forces of love, despair, apathy, nature, and death.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial Classics 1998
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Wilder, Thornton
Summary: The Eighth Day (1967), an enthralling novel in which Wilder revisits the small-town America of Our Town to stage a philosophical who-dunit; a wrongful conviction for murder and a daring rescue frame a meditation on the mysteriousness of justice, fate, and "the impassioned will," for which "nothing is impossible." Wilder's final novel, the semi-autobiographical Theophilus North (1973), is an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2011