Thornton Wilder

A collection of six short plays by one of the greatest American playwrights of the 20th century. Renowned for his masterful gift for revealing the miraculous in the seemingly mundane, these short plays showcase Thornton Wilder's ability to examine American life, death, and all the mysteries therein with warmth, humor, and grace. This collection includes The Long Christmas Dinner, Queens of France, Pullman Car Hiawatha, Love and How to Cure It, Such Things Only Happen in Books, and The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden.

Tervetuloa Pohjoismaiden suurimpaan verkkokirjakauppaan! Adlibris kannattaa sananvapautta, ja haluamme edistää kirjallisuuden ja tiedon saatavuutta.

An adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's most notable play about a waning marriage, and the social constructs between a husband and wife. Thornton Wilder's acting version of A Doll's House premiered on Broadway at the Morsco Theatre in December 1937, under the direction of Jed Harris.

Set in the tony resort town of Newport RI during the height of the Jazz Age in summer 1926 Theophilus North follows the exploits of the title character as he searches for adventure and his place in the world. Quitting his teaching position in New Jersey and stranded in Newport after his jalopy breaks down thirty-year-old Theophilus takes odd jobs (tennis instructor French tutor private reader...) in houses of the wealthy infiltrating himself into the lives and troubles of Newport

Millie the nursemaid brings baby Tommy to Central Park in the hopes of a rendezvous with the handsome Patrolman Avonzino. Mrs. Boker soon arrives with baby Moe, and as the two ladies trade snacks and advice on child rearing, the infants compare notes on their parents' bad behavior and pitiful lack of understanding. Babies act like grown-ups and grown-ups act like babies in this comedy about fulfilling basic human needs.

This one-act comedy, set in a Pullman car on a train traveling from New York to Chicago in December, 1930, introduces techniques Wilder would use in future three-act plays. Pullman Car takes us on a metaphorical journey by train through the American landscape, a diverse band of travelers encapsulated in a Pullman car hurtle through time, space and a range of emotions.5 women, 12 men

"The best thing he ever wrote," observed Edmund Wilson of Thornton Wilder's National Book Award winner The Eighth Day (1967), an enthralling novel that shows Wilder revisiting the small-town America of Our Town to fashion a philosophical whodunit. A wrongful conviction for murder and a daring rescue lead to a meditation on justice, destiny, and "the impassioned will," for which "nothing is impossible." Wilder's last novel, the semi-autobiographical Theophilus North (1973), is an affectionate portrait of Newport, Rhode Island, in the 1920s and a playful, valedictory glance at Wilder's young manhood. Completing this volume are three never-before- published reminiscences taken from an unfinished autobiography in which Wilder engagingly recalls his childhood stay at a boarding school in China, his time as an undergraduate at Yale, and the uneasy experience of visiting Salzburg not long before Austria was annexed by the Nazis. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

From the play by George FarquharComedyCharacters: 8 male 5female with doubling Various Locations The play tells the story of two young bucks who having spent all their money by living too well leave London and roam from town to town in search of love and fortune. In order to find a wealthy heiress for at least one of them they pose as master and servant - exchanging roles from one town to the next. In Lichfield Aimwell is the master and Archer the servant and there they m

A volume of approximately three dozen plays includes The Alcestiad, Our Town, and a previously unpublished Alfred Hitchcock screenplay, Shadow of a Doubt, in a collection that also restores to print a key selection of Wilder's theatrical essays.

These letters of Adaline Glasheen and Thornton Wilder, written between 1950 and 1975, reveal the probing energy and encyclopedic knowledge they each brought to their study of James Joyce's final novel, 'Finnegans Wake'.

:Theophilus North9 ist Thornton Wilders siebenter und letzter Roman und es ist sein autobiographischster, sein menschenfreundlichster. Der Held und Ich-Erzähler ist ein Weiser von dreißig Jahren, ein :Heiliger wider Willen9. Kein Entwicklungsroman also, denn der Held ist fix und fertig und mit fabelhaften Fähigkeiten begabt. Neun Träume sind es, denen Theophilus nachhängt: er wollte Heiliger werden, dann Anthropologe, Archäologe, Detektiv, Schauspieler, Zauberer, Liebhaber, Schurke und schließlich "ein freier Mensch". Ausgerechnet in Newport auf Rhode Island, dem Sommerparadies amerikanischer Millionäre, wohin er sich nach dem Streß in Yale und als Sprachlehrer für einen Feriensommer zurückzieht, verwirklicht er fast alle diese Träume, sogar den vom "Heiligen". Überall, wo er auftaucht, gelingt es ihm auf wundersame Weise, die Dinge ins Lot zu bringen. Er befreit eine junge Millionenerbin von einem Mitgiftjäger, rettet einen Millionär aus den Klauen lauernder Erben, stiftet oder kittet Ehen, heilt Kranke und entlarvt eine Fälscherbande. Es ist der alte Traum von Thornton Wilder, das Märchen vom guten Menschen, der in Gestalt von Theophilus North im Amerika von 1926 Frieden stiftet.