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Thornton Wilder - American Writers 34 was first published in 1964. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

Examines the 5 novels and 4 full-length plays in terms of Wilder's efforts to find in the lives of his characters qualities which affirm the dignity of the individual.

Interveaves biographical material with a guide to Wilder's plays and novels.

From boyhood in Wisconsin, California and China, Thornton Wilder's imagination was fired by books and the theater, though he showed little early promise of becoming a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and the celebrated author of The Bridge of San Luis Ray. In this first full-length study of the man and the writer, Wilder is seen as an eager, desperately literary Oberlin and Yale undergraduate, as an explorer of ancient and modern Rome, as a schoolmaster...

A European professor's appraisal of Wilder's works. A chapter is devoted to each of the six novels including the latest (The eighth).

This collection takes the measure of Wilder's extraordinary career as a dramatist by presenting the complete span of his achievement, beginning with his early expressionist experiments and daring one-act plays, ranging through the full flowering of maturity, 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...

Thornton Wilder's finest play, a deeply sympathetic examination of lives in small-town America, is here given an outstanding adaptation. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Twenty-two critical essays on the contemporary state of the drama in the U.S.