Our Town - A Play in Three Acts

First produced and published in 1938, this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the small village of Grover''s Corners, an allegorical representation of all life, has become an American classic. It is Thornton Wilder''s most renowned and most frequently performed play.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Thornton Wilder (1897–1975) was an accomplished novelist and playwright whose works, exploring the connection between the commonplace and cosmic dimensions of human experience, continue to be read and produced around the world. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of his seven novels, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928, as did two of his four full-length dramas, Our Town (1938) and The Skin of Our Teeth (1943). The Matchmaker was adapted as the musical Hello, Dolly! Wilder also enjoyed enormous success with many other forms of the written and spoken word, among them teaching, acting, opera, and film, including his classic screenplay for Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt (1943). The writer’s many honors include the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the National Book Committee's Medal for Literature.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Thornton Wilder
• Mitarbeit: Sarah Ruhl (Einführung)
• Verlag: Harper Perennial USA
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 10.09.2013
• EAN: 9780062280817
• ISBN: 978-0-06-228081-7
• Seiten: 224
• Abmessung: 145 mm x 210 mm x 17 mm
• Serie: Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; FICTION: Literary, DRAMA: American / General, FICTION: Small Town & Rural *, FILM STUDIES: BOOK TO FILM ADAPTATIONS, COMMON CORE: LITERATURE, HARPER PERENNIAL CLASSICS: DRAMA, COMMON CORE: EXEMPLAR TEXTS, PHILOSOPHY: LITERATURE