Thornton Wilder

Author : Penelope Niven
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 791 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062097774

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Thornton Wilder by Penelope Niven Pdf

"Thornton Wilder: A Life brings readers face to face with the extraordinary man who made words come alive around the world, on the stage and on the page." —James Earl Jones, actor "Comprehensive and wisely fashioned….A splendid and long needed work." —Edward Albee, playwright Thornton Wilder—three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, creator of such enduring stage works as Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and beloved novels like Bridge of San Luis Ray and Theophilus North—was much more than a pivotal figure in twentieth century American theater and literature. He was a world-traveler, a student, a teacher, a soldier, an actor, a son, a brother, and a complex, intensely private man who kept his personal life a secret. In Thornton Wilder: A Life, author Penelope Niven pulls back the curtain to present a fascinating, three-dimensional portrait one of America's greatest playwrights, novelists, and literary icons.

Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593470954

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The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder Pdf

This Pulitzer Prize-winning, fable-like short novel—by the author of Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth—has been beloved around the world for nearly a century. This splendid and profoundly moving novel begins with a simple and seemingly senseless tragedy. "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." A traveling monk, Brother Juniper, witnesses the catastrophe and becomes obsessed with investigating the lives of the five victims in order to prove that their deaths had meaning. His mission is doomed to fail, but over the course of the story, the five unlucky individuals—a noblewoman, a maid, an orphan, an old man, and a child—come to life for the reader in all of their glorious complexity. Their intertwined lives—snuffed out in one shattering moment—illuminate the biggest questions that we can ask ourselves about the nature of love and meaning of the human condition.

Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0878055142

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Conversations with Thornton Wilder by Thornton Wilder Pdf

Collected interviews with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and playwright most widely known today for his play, Our Town

Author : Lincoln Konkle
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826264978

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Thornton Wilder and the Puritan Narrative Tradition by Lincoln Konkle Pdf

"Fresh examination of the works of Thornton Wilder emphasizing continuities in American literature from the seventeenth through twentieth centuries. Sees Wilder as a literary descendant of Edward Taylor who drew from the Puritan worldview and tradition. Includes indepth readings of Shadow of a Doubt, The Trumpet Shall Sound, and others"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062943361

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Theophilus North by Thornton Wilder Pdf

“An extremely entertaining array of American life in a bygone era.” — New Yorker The last of Thornton Wilder’s works published during his lifetime, Theophilus North is part autobiographical and part the imagined adventures of Wilder’s twin brother who died at birth. This edition features an updated afterword from Wilder’s nephew, Tappan Wilder, with illuminating material about the novelist, story and setting. Setting out to see the world in the summer of 1926, Theophilus North gets as far as Newport, Rhode Island, before his car breaks down. To support himself, Theophilus takes jobs in the elegant mansions along Ocean Drive, just as Wilder himself did in the same decade. Soon the young man finds himself playing the roles of tutor, tennis coach, spy, confidant, lover, friend and enemy as he becomes entangled in adventure and intrigue in Newport’s fabulous addresses, as well as in its local boarding houses, restaurants, dives and military barracks. Narrated by the elderly North from a distance of fifty years, Theophilus North is a fascinating commentary on youth and education from the vantage point of age, and deftly displays Wilder’s trademark wit juxtaposed with his lively and timeless ruminations on what really matters, at the end of the day, about life, love, and work.

Author : Gilbert A. Harrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:835826167

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The Enthusiast by Gilbert A. Harrison Pdf

Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780063080157

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Heaven's My Destination by Thornton Wilder Pdf

“If John Steinbeck’s mighty Grapes of Wrath is the tragic novel of the Great Depression, then Heaven’s My Destination is its comic masterpiece. —J.D. McClatchy A hilarious tale about goodness in a fallen world, Heaven’s My Destination introduces George Marvin Brush, one of Thornton Wilder's most memorable characters. Brush, a traveling textbook salesman, is a fervent religious convert who is determined to lead a good life. With sad and sometimes hilarious consequences, his travels take him through smoking cars, bawdy houses, banks, and campgrounds from Texas to Illinois—and into the soul of Depression-era America itself. This special edition includes an updated afterword by Wilder’s nephew, Tappan Wilder, with illuminating material about the author and book.

Author : Howard Sherman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350123465

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Another Day's Begun by Howard Sherman Pdf

A work of startling originality when it debuted in 1938, Thornton Wilder's Our Town evolved to be seen by some as a vintage slice of early 20th Century Americana, rather than being fully appreciated for its complex and eternal themes and its deceptively simple form. This unique and timely book shines a light on the play's continued impact in the 21st century and makes a case for the healing powers of Wilder's text to a world confronting multiple crises. Through extensive interviews with more than 100 artists about their own experience of the play and its impact on them professionally and personally – and including background on the play's early years and its pervasiveness in American culture – Another Day's Begun shows why this particular work remains so important, essential, and beloved. Every production of Our Town has a story to tell beyond Wilder's own. One year after the tragedy of 9/11, Paul Newman, in his final stage appearance, played the Stage Manager in Our Town on Broadway. Director David Cromer's 2008 Chicago interpretation would play in five more cities, ultimately becoming New York's longest-running Our Town ever. In 2013, incarcerated men at Sing Sing Correctional Facility brought Grover's Corners inside a maximum security prison. After the 2017 arena bombing in Manchester UK, the Royal Exchange Theatre chose Our Town as its offering to the stricken community. 80 years after it was written, more than 110 years after its actions take place, Our Town continues to assert itself as an essential play about how we must embrace and appreciate the value of life itself. Another Day's Begun explains how this American classic has the power to inspire, heal and endure in the modern day, onstage and beyond.

Author : Gertrude Stein,Thornton Wilder
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300067747

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The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder by Gertrude Stein,Thornton Wilder Pdf

Letters trace the friendship between Stein and Wilder from late 1934 until Stein's death in 1946

Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780063060128

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The Ides of March by Thornton Wilder Pdf

The classic Thornton Wilder novel that recreates the dazzling ancient Roman empire of Julius Caesar—now with a new introduction by Jeremy McCarter, author of Young Radicals and co-author (with Lin-Manuel Miranda) of the #1 New York Times bestseller Hamilton: The Revolution. 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 Rome comes crowding through his pages: Romans of the slums, of the villas, of the palaces, brawling youths and noble ladies and prostitutes, and the spies and assassins stalking Caesar in his Rome. Vivid, compelling, and engaging, The Ides of March showcases Thornton Wilder’s unique storytelling genius. This special edition also includes an afterword by Wilder's nephew, Tappan Wilder, with illuminating documentary material about the novelist and story.

Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573615489

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The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder Pdf

"An Eternal Family narrowly escape one disaster after another, from ancient times to the present. Meet George and Maggie Antrobus (married only 5,000 years); their two children, Gladys and Henry (perfect in every way!); and their maid, Sabina (the ageless vamp) as they overcome ice, flood, and war -- by the skin of their teeth."--Amazon

Author : Thornton Wilder,J. D. McClatchy
Publisher : Library of America Thornton Wi
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015069192824

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Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays & Writings on Theater (LOA #172) by Thornton Wilder,J. D. McClatchy Pdf

Our town -- The skin of our teeth -- The matchmaker -- The Alcestiad -- The drunken sisters -- The marriage we deplore -- The unerring instinct -- Scenes from The emporium -- Plays for Bleecker Street -- The seven ages of man -- Writings on theater.

Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : American drama
ISBN : 0573662827

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Long Christmas Dinner, The by Thornton Wilder Pdf

"The Long Christmas Dinner - nine decades long - showcases the lives of several generations of the Bayard family, and some of their Christmas dinners. Wilder breaks the boundaries of time as we measure it, and invites us to partake of 'one long, happy Christmas dinner' - past, present, and future. As generations appear, have children, wither, and depart, only the audience appreciates what changes and what remains the same. 'Every last twig is wrapped around with ice. You almost never see that, ' young Genevieve marvels, not realizing that her mother made this observation years earlier, or that her daughter-in-law will one day do the same."--

Author : Thornton Wilder,J. D. McClatchy
Publisher : Library of America Thornton Wi
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015075681422

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Thornton Wilder: The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels 1926-1948 (LOA #194) by Thornton Wilder,J. D. McClatchy Pdf

Presents an anthology of novels, short stories, and essays.

Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher : New York Coward-McCann 1928.
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Art, Classical
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003805384

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The Angel that Troubled the Waters by Thornton Wilder Pdf

In his Foreword to The Angel That Troubled the Waters and Other Plays, published in 1928, Wilder explained that almost all the playlets in the book are religious, "but religious in that dilute fashion that is a believer's concession to a contemporary standard of good manners." He wanted to explore religious themes and questions without being preachy, or didactic ... In fact, it was often his intention in such playlets as this one to stand the biblical story on its head -to shake up the language, as it were. He also said--about his plays dealing with religious themes and stories--that in "these matters beyond logic, beauty is the only persuasion."--Www.throntonwilder.com.