Our Town : A Play in Three Acts by Thornton Wilder
	List Price:   $10.95 Unit Price:   $8.76 You Save:   $2.19 (20%) ISBN-10:   0060512636 ISBN-13:   9780060512637 Publisher:   HarperCollins; Harper Perennial Modern Classics Series:   Perennial Classics Ser. Category:   Classics Pub. Date:   October 2003 Pages:   208 Format:   Paperback
Subjects
AMERICAN DRAMA (DRAMATIC WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)
Description/Notes
Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) is an accomplished novelist and playwright whose works explore the connection between the commonplace and the cosmic dimensions of human experience. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928 for The Bridge of San Luis Rey, the second of his seven novels, and received the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for Our Town in 1938 and The Skin of Our Teeth in 1943. Wilder's his play The Matchmaker was adapted as the musical Hello, Dolly!. His work is widely read and produced around the world to this day, and his screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943) remains a classic psycho-thriller Wilder's many honors include the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. First produced and published in 1938, this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama is a timeless American classic, rich with universal themes.