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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...
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As an investigative journalist in Austria-Hungary, Billy Wilder espoused ideals that would be the themes in his later films: a play of ambiguity; changes of identity; and a fascination for America. This compassionate program explains how Wilder used these themes to craft Marilyn Monroe's performances in The Seven Year Itch and Some Like It Hot. Their joyful complicity is best illustrated in Wilder's Fedora, sequel to his masterpiece Sunset Boulevard...
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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...
14) Some like it hot
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Two unemployed musicians accidentally witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and flee to Miami disguised as female musicians.
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Flowering Wilderness is the second book in the third volume titled The End of Chapter. This novel continues the story of the Cherrell/Charwell family who are related by marriage to Fleur Mont (nee Forsyte, daughter of Galsworthy's great creation Soames Forsyte). The author has drawn a fascinating and accurately detailed picture of the British propertied class.
19) Wilderness tips
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True trash -- Hairball -- Isis in darkness -- Bog man -- Death by landscape -- Uncles -- Age of the lead -- Weight -- Wilderness tips --Hack wednesday.
20) Thornton Wilder
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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.
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