Our Town and Other Plays (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Wilder, Thornton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141184582 ISBN 13: 9780141184586

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2000

Synopsis

Finding the theatre of the 1920s lacking in bite and conviction, Thornton Wilder set out to bring back realism and to celebrate the innocent, simple and religious. Yet he also tried to endow individual experience with cosmic significance and Our Town is both an affectionate portrait of American life and 'an attempt to find a value above all price for the smallest events in our daily life'. The Skin of our Teeth deals with human survival in a 'comic strip' way, and The Matchmaker is a hilarious farce which urges rebellion against all the constraints that deny a rich, full life.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

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.

About the Author:

Thornton (Niven) Wilder (1897-1975) American writer and playwright, best known for OUR TOWN (1938) and THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY (1927), an examination of justice and altruism.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0141184582
• ISBN 13: 9780141184586
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256