Our Town - Softcover

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0590436902 ISBN 13: 9780590436908

Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks, 1989

Synopsis

Take a journey into the daily life of a small town with CliffsNotes "Our Town." Meet Thornton Wilder's beloved characters Emily Webb and George Gibb and watch as they experience daily life, fall in love, and face tragedy.What moments of your own life would you choose to live over again if given the chance? You can count on CliffsNotes to help open your eyes to the characters and themes in "Our Town" as you think about what it means to really live life every, every minute.

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0590436902
• ISBN 13: 9780590436908
• Binding: Paperback