Thornton Wilder
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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This beautiful new edition features unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary mate- rial, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder.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 the towering achievements in American fiction and a novel...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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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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English
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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features a foreword by John Updike and an afterword by Tappan Wilder, who draws on such unique sources as Wilder’s unpublished letters, handwritten annotations in the margins of the book, and other illuminating documentary material.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,...
Author
Publisher
Perennial
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
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...
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Series
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1973]
Language
English
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As a growing boy Theophilus had successively aspired to nine different life-careers - including those of saint, archaeologist, detective, lover, actor, and rascal. At the age of twenty-nine he finds himself engaged in tutoring jobs in Newport, Rhode Island.
6) Our Town
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Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
c1938
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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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.
12) The matchmaker
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1958.
Language
English
Description
Adaptation of Thornton Wilder's hit Broadway play about a matchmaker who sets out to make her own match.
13) Our town
Publisher
PBS Broadcasting Service
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
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.
14) Hello, Dolly!
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Musical set in the 1890's about a professional matchmaker who meets her match.
Publisher
New Line Home Entertaintment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Five people are killed in a freak accident when a lofty rope bridge collapses. A priest journeys to discover if there was a divine reason for the bloody disaster. Set in Lima, Peru, during the 18th century and based on the Thornton Wilder novel.
17) Our town
Series
Publisher
PBS Broadcasting Service
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
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.
18) Hello, Dolly
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Musical set in the 1890's about a professional matchmaker who meets her match.
19) Hello, Dolly
Author
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Musical set in the 1890's about a professional matchmaker who meets her match.
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Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
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.