Автор: Wilder, Thornton Название: The ides of March ISBN: 0060088907 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780060088903 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 2757.00 р. Наличие на складе: Ожидается поступление.
Описание: The classic Thornton Wilder novel, in our series of Wilder reissues with a new foreword by Kurt Vonnegut.
Описание: "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. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Автор: Thornton Wilder Название: Our Town and Other Plays ISBN: 0141184582 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141184586 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1319.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Finding the theatre of the 1920s lacking in bite and conviction, Thornton Wilder set out to bring back realism and to celebrate the innocent, simple and religious. This title includes "Our Town"; "The Skin of our Teeth"; and "The Matchmaker".
Автор: Thornton Wilder Название: The Bridge of San Luis Rey ISBN: 0141184256 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141184258 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1187.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: An ancient bridge collapses over a gorge in Peru, hurling five people into the abyss. It seems a meaningless human tragedy. But one witness, a Franciscan monk, believes the deaths might not be as random as they appear. Convinced that the disaster is a punishment sent from Heaven, the monk sets out to discover all he can about the travellers.
Автор: Thornton Wilder Название: Collected Plays and Writings on Theater ISBN: 1598530038 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781598530032 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 3678.00 р. Наличие на складе: Ожидается поступление.
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: Thornton Wilder Название: The Bridge of San Luis Rey ISBN: 0141023627 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141023625 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Цена: 553.00 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: 1566.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: A classic Thornton Wilder novel, in our series of Wilder reissues, with new forewords and afterwords.
Автор: Wilder, Thornton Название: Bridge of San Luis Rey, The ISBN: 0060088877 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780060088873 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 1357.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: A new edition of Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel with a new foreword by Russell Banks and with new documentary material.
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