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Thornton Wilder: The Eighth Day, Theophilus North, AutobiographicalWritings (Library of America)

by Thornton Wilder

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"The best thing he ever wrote," observed Edmund Wilson of Thornton Wilder's National Book Award winner "The Eighth Day" (1967), an enthralling novel that shows Wilder revisiting the small-town America of "Our Town" to fashion a philosophical whodunit... Read more
"The best thing he ever wrote," observed Edmund Wilson of Thornton Wilder's National Book Award winner "The Eighth Day" (1967), an enthralling novel that shows Wilder revisiting the small-town America of "Our Town" to fashion a philosophical whodunit. A wrongful conviction for murder and a daring rescue lead to a meditation on justice, destiny, and "the impassioned will," for which "nothing is impossible." Wilder's last novel, the semi-autobiographical "Theophilus North" (1973), is an affectionate portrait of Newport, Rhode Island, in the 1920s and a playful, valedictory glance at Wilder's young manhood. Completing this volume are three never-before- published reminiscences taken from an unfinished autobiography in which Wilder engagingly recalls his childhood stay at a boarding school in China, his time as an undergraduate at Yale, and the uneasy experience of visiting Salzburg not long before Austria was annexed by the Nazis. Less

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File size7.9x5.3x1.3inches
Print pages481
PublisherHarper Perennial
Publication date January 1, 2007
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781598531466
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Thornton Wilder
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Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – Dec 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes—for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the plays Our Town and T...

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