Автор: Wilder, Thornton Название: Bridge of San Luis Rey, The ISBN: 0060088877 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780060088873 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 1235 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A new edition of Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel with a new foreword by Russell Banks and with new documentary material.
Автор: Thornton Wilder Название: The Bridge of San Luis Rey ISBN: 0141023627 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141023625 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Цена: 553 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Wilder, Thornton Название: Heaven`s My Destination ISBN: 0060088893 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780060088897 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Рейтинг: Цена: 1425 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A classic Thornton Wilder novel, in our series of Wilder reissues, with new forewords and afterwords.
Автор: Wilder Thornton Название: The Bridge of San Luis Rey ISBN: 0060580615 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780060580612 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 1900 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A hardcover of Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel.
Автор: Thornton Wilder Название: Collected Plays and Writings on Theater ISBN: 1598530038 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781598530032 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 3802 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Tender, beguiling, suffused with feeling and wit, the remarkable plays of Thornton Wilder occupy a unique place in American culture. His most celebrated play, Our Town, has achieved iconic status as an expression of the spirit and pathos of small-town American life; adapted for the movies and the operatic stage, it continues to resonate with audiences responding to its formal elegance, plainspoken poetry, and moving evocation of the inevitability of loss. Collected Plays and Writings on Theater, the most comprehensive one-volume edition of Thornton Wilder's work ever published, takes the measure of his extraordinary career as a dramatist by presenting the complete span of his achievement, beginning with his early expressionist experiments and daring one-act plays, such as "The Long Christmas Dinner" and "The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden" (one of Wilder's personal favorites), ranging through the full flowering of Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Matchmaker, and encompassing the intriguing dramatic projects of his later years, such as his adaptation of the ancient story of Alcestis (The Alcestiad) and plays written for dramatic cycles based on the Seven Deadly Sins and the varied ages of an individual's life. Complementing the selection of plays is an illuminating group of essays that captures Wilder's reflections on his plays and contains a revealing epistolary account of the film adaptation of Our Town, as well as evaluations of dramatists such as Sophocles, George Bernard Shaw, and the Austrian satirist Johann Nestroy (whose farce Einen Jux will er sich machen Wilder brilliantly transformed into The Matchmaker). This volume also includes material never before published: scenes from The Emporium, an ambitious unfinished play that, emerging out of Wilder's intense engagement with existentialist philosophy in the postwar years, imagines a Kafkaesque department store whose enigmatic activities are as inscrutable as the mysteries of life itself; and the complete screenplay Wilder wrote for Alfred Hitchcock's film Shadow of a Doubt just before reporting for military service in 1942. Although faithful to the spirit of the film, the screenplay presented here restores Wilder's original dialogue, some of which (to Wilder's dismay) was altered for the movie. A study of family life, youthful illusions, and the desperation of a criminal on the run, the Shadow of a Doubt screenplay is a masterful exhibition of the art of suspense and taut dramatic storytelling, and is an essential part of Wilder's oeuvre. "While all of Wilder's work is intelligent, non-synthetic and often moving, as well as funny, it is Our Town that makes the difference. It is probably the finest play ever written by an American."--Edward Albee
Автор: Wilder, Thornton Название: Cabala and The Woman of Andros, The ISBN: 006051857X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780060518578 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 1425 р. Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: Two early novels by the American master with a new foreword and afterword.
Автор: Wilder, Thornton Название: Matchmaker, The ISBN: 0062693492 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062693495 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 1520 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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Now, for the first time in a standalone edition, Thornton Wilder's brilliant, hilarious play which was adapted into the hit Broadway musical Hello, Dolly with an afterword by Tappan Wilder.
Horace Vandergelder, a wealthy old merchant residing in Yonkers has decided it's time to take a wife and hires a matchmaker. But Dolly Gallagher Levi is no ordinary matchmaker. She's a force of nature, with a plan of her own. Levi soon becomes involved in the affairs of the hearts of all those around her--including Vandergelder's niece, his store clerks, assorted young and lovely ladies, and the headwaiter at an expensive restaurant, where this swift farce inevitably runs headlong into hilarious complications. Indeed, after a series of slapstick situations involving mistaken identities, a secret rendezvous behind carefully placed screens, separated lovers, and a trip to night court--everyone involved eventually finds themselves paired with a perfect match.
A delightful, deliciously funny classic by Thornton Wilder, The Matchmaker is astonishingly modern and is sure to resonate with audiences and readers today.
"Loud, slap dash and uproarious...extraordinarily original and funny."--New York Times
Автор: Wilder Thornton Название: Bridge of San Luis Rey, Tie-In the ISBN: 0060757507 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780060757502 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 1520 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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This beautiful new edition of Thornton Wilder's classic novel features previously unpublished notes and other illuminating documentary material as well as an updated afterword by his nephew, Tappan Wilder, and a foreword by Russell Banks.
"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, one of the towering achievements in American fiction, and a novel read throughout the world, begins.
By fate or chance, a monk has witnessed the collapse. Brother Juniper, moved by the tragedy, embarks on a quest to prove a higher order is at work in the deaths of those who perished. His search leads readers on a timeless investigation into the nature of love and the meaning of the human condition.
Автор: Niven Penelope Название: Thornton Wilder: A Life ISBN: 0060831375 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780060831370 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 1900 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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"Thornton Wilder: A Life brings readers face to face with the extraordinary man who made words come alive around the world, on the stage and on the page." --James Earl Jones, actor
"Comprehensive and wisely fashioned....A splendid and long needed work." --Edward Albee, playwright
Thornton Wilder--three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, creator of such enduring stage works as Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and beloved novels like Bridge of San Luis Ray and Theophilus North--was much more than a pivotal figure in twentieth century American theater and literature. He was a world-traveler, a student, a teacher, a soldier, an actor, a son, a brother, and a complex, intensely private man who kept his personal life a secret. In Thornton Wilder: A Life, author Penelope Niven pulls back the curtain to present a fascinating, three-dimensional portrait one of America's greatest playwrights, novelists, and literary icons.
Stella Adler was one of the most influential acting teachers of all time, a legendary force of nature whose generations of students include Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Anthony Quinn, Diana Ross, Robert De Niro, Warren Beatty, Annette Benning, and Mark Ruffalo. This long-awaited companion to her book on the master European playwrights brings to life America s most revered playwrights, whom she knew, loved, and worked with. Brilliantly edited by Barry Paris, Adler s lectures on the giants of twentieth-century theater feature her indispensable insights into such classic plays as Long Day s Journey into Night, The Skin of Our Teeth, A Streetcar Named Desire, Come Back, Little Sheba, The Glass Menagerie, and Death of a Salesman, while shedding new light on such lesser known gems as Tennessee Williams s The Lady of Larkspur Lotion and Arthur Miller s After the Fall. Illuminating, revelatory, inspiring this is Stella Adler at her electrifying best."
Автор: Wheatley Christopher J Название: Thornton Wilder and Amos Wilder ISBN: 0268044244 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780268044244 Издательство: Eurospan Рейтинг: Цена: 3573 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This is the first book to explore the relationship between Thornton`s work and his brother Amos`s scholarship.
