Wilder, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2003
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Summary: This beautiful new edition features unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary material, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder.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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial Library 1986
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1927
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1973
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Summary: This beautiful new edition features unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary material, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder.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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2003
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2003
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial Classics 1998
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.52 WILWilder, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.52 WILWilder, Thornton
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: The author's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama portrays life in a small New Hampshire town during the early 1900s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial Library 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.52 WILHerman, Jerry
Contents: Overture (4:20) -- I put my hand in (2:53) -- It takes a woman (2:30) -- Put on your Sunday clothes (4:00) -- Ribbons down my back (2:50) -- Motherhood (1:40) -- Dancing (5:20) -- Before the parade passes by (3:17) -- Elegance (2:15) -- Hello, Dolly! (5:44) -- It only takes a moment (2:57) -- So long dearie (2:51) -- Finale (4:00).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA Victor 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC HELSummary: Musical set in the 1890's about a professional matchmaker who meets her match.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD HELCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS HELSummary: A beguiling murderer charms his unsuspecting family, but soon his niece and namesake begins to suspect her uncle is hiding a terrible secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2000
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER SHASummary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Broadcasting Service 2003
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Our Town 2003Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OURSummary: "Against all odds, the students at Dominguez High School set out to put on the school's first theatrical production in more than 20 years. But what does Thornton Wilder's famous play about life in rural Grover's Corners have to do with Compton, California? [This film] follows the students on their discovery of the power of art and the human spirit"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2003