Our Town: A Play in Three Acts Contributor(s): Wilder, Thornton (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060512636 ISBN-13: 9780060512637 Publisher: Harper Perennial
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: September 2003 * Out of Print * Annotation: First produced and published in 1938, this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama is a timeless American classic, rich with universal themes. Click for more in this series: Perennial Classics |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Drama | American - General |
Dewey: 812.52 |
LCCN: 2003055676 |
Series: Perennial Classics |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" L (0.35 lbs) 208 pages |
Features: Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product |
Review Citations: Newsweek 09/28/2009 pg. 64 |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 5995 Reading Level: 3.9 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 3.0 |
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Publisher Description: A handsome Perennial Classics edition of America's favourite play, "Our Town," winner of the Pulitzer Prize. First produced and published in 1938, this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the small village of Grover's Corners has become an American classic and is Thornton Wider's most renowned and most frequently performed play. This Perennial Classics edition includes a foreword by Donald Margulies and contains an afterword with documentary material edited by Tappan Wilder. |
Contributor Bio(s): Wilder, Thornton: - Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) was an accomplished novelist and playwright whose works, exploring the connection between the commonplace and cosmic dimensions of human experience, continue to be read and produced around the world. His Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of seven novels, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928, as did two of his four full-length dramas, Our Town (1938) and The Skin of Our Teeth (1943). Wilder's The Matchmaker was adapted as the musical Hello, Dolly!. He also enjoyed enormous success with many other forms of the written and spoken word, among them teaching, acting, the opera, and films. (His screenplay for Hitchcock's Shadow of Doubt [1943] remains a classic psycho-thriller to this day.) Wilder's many honors include the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the National Book Committee's Medal for Literature. |
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