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(0)Thornton Wilder
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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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. It is now reissued in this handsome hardcover edition, featuring a new Foreword by Donald Margulies, who writes, "You are holding in your hands a great American play. Possibly...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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"The essence of Mr. Wilder's book is really the feeling in it; it is a 'notation of the heart' with sympathy. Gaily or sadly, but always with understanding, a belief in the miracle of love runs through it all." —Times Literary Supplement (London)
"On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." With this celebrated sentence Thornton
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Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1973]
Language
English
Description
The last of Thornton Wilder's works published during his lifetime, Theophilus North is part autobiographical and part the imagined adventures of Wilder's twin brother who died at birth. This edition features an updated afterword from Wilder's nephew, Tappan Wilder, with illuminating material about the novelist, story and setting. Setting out to see the world in the summer of 1926, Theophilus North gets as far as Newport, Rhode Island, before his car...
7) Our town
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A study of life, love, and death in a New England town at the turn of the 20th century.
8) Hello Dolly!
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
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The unforgettable songs and lavish production numbers in this classic musical, directed by the legendary Gene Kelly, reach glorious heights. Barbra Streisand and Walter Matthau star in the charming tale of Dolly Levi (Streisand), a New York matchmaker who falls in love with a wealthy bachelor from Yonkers named Horace (Matthau).
9) Our town
Publisher
Delta Entertainment Corp
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
"Meet the citizens of Grover's Corner, a small New Hampshire town, as they face the large and small questions of life"--Container.