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Nel 1948 Thornton Wilder, versatile scrittore americano di romanzi e commedie di successo, pubblicò "Idi di marzo": un romanzo epistolare o, se si vuole, documentario, che si propone di ricostruire l'ultimo anno della vita di Cesare e culmina nella scena dell'uccisione di lui in Senato, ad opera dei celebri "congiurati" il 15 marzo del 44 a.C. Libro "documentario" s'è detto. Infatti l'ambizione di Wilder è di costruire un racconto unicamente a...

Peru, im Jahr 1714: eine Hängebrücke in der Nähe von Lima stürzt ein und reißt fünf Menschen in den Abgrund. Ein Franziskanermönch wird Zeuge dieser Katastrophe und beginnt, dem Leben der Opfer nachzuforschen. Er will den Beweis erbringen, dass ihr Tod kein sinnloser Zufall war, sondern notwendig genau zu dieser Zeit und an diesem Ort eintreten musste. Und tatsächlich sind ihre Schicksale miteinander verbunden û durch die Liebe in ihren versch...

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Un giovane americano a Roma entra in contatto con un misterioso gruppo dell'alta società chiamato La Cabala, i cui membri sembrano godere di straordinari poteri che evocano un mondo mitico e scomparso...

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A symbolical play about a man named Francis who bears an unspeakable burden of sin and who is now plighted to Lady Poverty-- a crazy woman who once knew a Francis and once was untrue to her husband and bears the marks and symbols of lust.

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Thornton Wilder was the rare writer whose achievements as a playwright were matched by equal abilities as a novelist. As companion to its volume of Wilder's collected plays, The Library of America's edition of his early novels and stories brings together five novels that highlight his wit, erudition, innovative formal structures, and philosophical wisdom. Drawing on the post-collegiate year he spent in Rome, Wilder fashioned in The Cabala a ta...

De brug van San Luis Rey is een korte, hechte roman waarmee Thornton Wilder zich voorgoed als literaire grootmeester heeft gekwalificeerd. Hij won er de Pulitzer Prize van 1928 mee. Een Franciscaner monnik, Juniper, is in het Peru van de vroege achttiende eeuw getuige van een noodlottig ongeval: een oude Inca-touwbrug stort in en een gezelschap van vijf mensen tuimelt in de diepte. De monnik probeert te ontwarren door welk godsbesluit juist de...

Collected Plays and Writings on Theater, the most comprehensive one-volume edition of Thornton Wilder's work ever published, takes the measure of his extraordinary career as a dramatist by presenting the complete span of his achievement, beginning with his early expressionist experiments and daring one-act plays, such as "The Long Christmas Dinner" and "The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden" (one of Wilder's personal favorites), ranging thro...

Winner! 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Drama In an important publishing event, Samuel French, in cooperation with the Thornton Wilder estate is pleased to release the playwright's definitive version of Our Town. This edition of the play differs only slightly from previous acting editions, yet it presents Our Town as Thornton Wilder wished it to be performed. Described by Edward Albee as "...the greatest American play ever written, " the story follows...

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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

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Volume II of Wilder's collected plays includes "The Angel That Troubled the Waters, Our Century, The Unerring Instinct", and "The Alcestiad, or a Life in the Sun", a little-known retelling of an ancient Greek legend.

Volume One of the collected short plays by one of the greatest American playwrights of the Twentieth Century.

First produced and published in 1938, this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama is a timeless American classic, rich with universal themes.

Letters written between 1950 and 1975 by Thornton Wilder and Adaline Glasheen discussing their reading of "Finnegan's Wake".

Three of the greatest plays in American literature collected in one volume This important new omnibus edition features an illuminating foreword by playwright John Guare and an extensive afterword for each play drawing on unpublished letters and other unique documentary material prepared by Tappan Wilder.Our Town—Wilder's timeless 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning look at love, death, and destiny is celebrated around the world and performed at least ...