Our Town - Softcover

Wilder, Thornton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0380005573 ISBN 13: 9780380005574

Publisher: Avon Books, 1975

Synopsis

Presents the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama which portrays life in a small New Hampshire town during the early 1900's

About this title

About the Author:

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.

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 this edition

• Publisher: Avon Books
• Publication date: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0380005573
• ISBN 13: 9780380005574
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback