Our town and other plays

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Title:

Author:

Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975.

ISBN:

9780141184586

Personal Author:

Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975.

Publication Information:

London : Penguin, 2000.

Physical Description:

280p. ; 20 cm.

Series:

Penguin classics

General Note:

Originally published: London: Longmans, Green, 1958.

Contents:

Contents: Our town. Originally published: London: Longmans, Green, 1956 - The skin of our teeth. Originally published: London: Longmans, Green, 1958 - The matchmaker. Originally published: London: Longmans, Green, 1958.

Added Title:

The matchmaker.

The skin of our teeth.

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Library	Material Type	Item Barcode	Shelf Number	Copy	Status
Searching... IIEMSA	General Books	33168025524501	812.52 W673.O 1958	1	Searching... Unknown

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Summary

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. Yet he also tried to endow individual experience with cosmic significance and Our Town is both an affectionate portrait of American life and 'an attempt to find a value above all price for the smallest events in our daily life'. The Skin of our Teeth deals with human survival in a 'comic strip' way, and The Matchmaker is a hilarious farce which urges rebellion against all the constraints that deny a rich, full life.