The Journals Of Thornton Wilder

Author : Wilder Thornton
Publisher : New Haven : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300033755
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Journals of Thornton Wilder, 1939-1961 written by Wilder Thornton and published by New Haven : Yale University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sculptor himself is here and and he takes are arm to confess his groping and his abandonments, or to exult in his late-at-night moments of inspiration.

Author : Penelope Niven
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062097776
Total Pages : 791 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thornton Wilder written by Penelope Niven and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 791 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Thomas S. Hischak
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538152401
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Thornton Wilder Encyclopedia written by Thomas S. Hischak and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thornton Wilder is one of America’s greatest writers, and the only author to win Pulitzer Prizes in both fiction and drama. Equally well known for his plays and novels, his unique and diverse body of work also includes essays, journals, lectures, and film and television scripts. In The Thornton Wilder Encyclopedia, Thomas S. Hischak exhaustively covers Wilder’s life and extensive career. Entries not only contain every one of his novels, plays, and scripts, but also his letters, journals, and all other existing works by Wilder, published or unpublished. In addition, this valuable reference features entries on the individuals who worked with Wilder and friends and family members who were a great influence on him. With a biography of Wilder to introduce the work and a chronology and selected bibliography to augment the entries, The Thornton Wilder Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive reference available on one of America’s greatest playwrights and finest novelists.

Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher : Library of America Thornton Wi
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays & Writings on Theater (LOA #172) written by Thornton Wilder and published by Library of America Thornton Wi. This book was released on 2007-03-15 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : New York Coward-McCann 1928.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Angel that Troubled the Waters written by Thornton Wilder and published by New York Coward-McCann 1928.. This book was released on 1928 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060765070
Total Pages : 774 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder written by Thornton Wilder and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-10-07 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning his entire life, The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder is a comprehensive and fascinating collection of the great American writer's correspondence. The author of such classics as Our Town and The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder was a born storyteller and dramatist--rare talents on glorious display in this volume of more than three hundred letters he penned to a vast array of famous friends and beloved relatives. Through Wilder's correspondence, readers can eavesdrop on his conversations with Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Noël Coward, Gene Tunney, Laurence Olivier, Aaron Copland, Paul Hindemith, Leonard Bernstein, Edward Albee, and Mia Farrow. Equally absorbing are Wilder's intimate letters to his family. Wilder tells of roller-skating with Walt Disney, remembers an inaugural reception for FDR at the White House, describes his life as a soldier in two World Wars, and recalls dining out with Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. In these pages, Thornton Wilder speaks for himself in his own unique, enduring voice--informing, encouraging, instructing, and entertaining with his characteristic wit, heart, and exuberance.

Author : Rex J. Burbank
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thornton Wilder written by Rex J. Burbank and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Martin Joseph Blank
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thornton Wilder written by Martin Joseph Blank and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rex James Burbank
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780805708042
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thornton Wilder written by Rex James Burbank and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen J. Rojcewicz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781032014678
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thornton Wilder, Classical Reception, and American Literature written by Stephen J. Rojcewicz and published by . This book was released on 2021-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book delineates how Thornton Wilder (1897-1975), a learned playwright and novelist, embeds himself within the classical tradition, integrating Greek and Roman motifs with a wide range of sources to produce heart-breaking masterpieces such as Our Town and comedy sensations such as Dolly Levi. Through this study of archival sources and close reading, readers will understand Wilder's avant-garde staging and innovative time sequences not as a break with the past, but as a response to the classics. The author traces the genesis of unforgettable characters like Dolly Levi in The Matchmaker, Emily Webb in Our Town, and George Antrobus in The Skin of Our Teeth. Vergil's expression, "Here are the tears of the world, and human matters touch the heart" haunts Wilder's oeuvre. Understanding Vergil's phrase as "tears for the beauty of the world," Wilder utilizes scenes depicting the beauty of the world and the sorrow when individuals recognize this too late. Wilder exhorts us to observe lovingly, alert to the wonder of the everyday. This work will appeal to actors and directors, professors and students in Classics and in American literature, those fascinated by modern drama and performance studies, and non-specialists, theatre-goers, and readers in the general public"--