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Thornton Wilder
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
Description
This beautiful new edition features unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary mate- rial, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder. "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714,the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." With this celebrated sentence Thornton Wilder begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the towering achievements in American fiction and a novel...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
This beautiful new edition features an eye-opening Afterword written by Tappan Wilder that includes Thornton Wilder's unpublished notes and other illuminating photographs and documentary material. Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the small village of Grover's Corners, an allegorical representation of all life, has become a classic. It is Thornton Wilder's most renowned...
5) Three plays
Author
Publisher
Perennial Library
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
Presents three plays by American playwright Thornton Wilder, written between 1938 and 1955, including "Our Town," "The Skin of Our Teeth," and "The Matchmaker."
Author
Series
Library of America volume 172
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
9) Our town
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
1975.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
10) Our town
Series
Publisher
PBS Broadcasting Service
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Stage production of Wilder's play; a study of life, love, and death in a New England town at the turn of the 20th century.
11) Hello, Dolly
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Musical set in the 1890's about a professional matchmaker who meets her match.
12) Our town
Publisher
FOCUSfilm Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Deals with life in a small New Hampshire community during the early years of the 20th century.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Set in 18th century Lima, Peru, a rickety bridge which has spanned a deep gorge for ages suddenly breaks, and five people plunge to their deaths. A priest who is deeply affected by the catastrophe decides to make an investigative study of the lives of the victims to determine if he can find some clue to God's intention in casting five dis-associated mortals into eternity at precisely the same moment.
Publisher
New Line Home Entertaintment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Five people are killed in a freak accident when a lofty rope bridge collapses. A priest journeys to discover if there was a divine reason for the bloody disaster. Set in Lima, Peru, during the 18th century and based on the Thornton Wilder novel.
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A calculating and charming killer hides out in his relatives' small hometown. There, he befriends his favorite niece and namesake, who begins to suspect her uncle may be the famed Merry Widow murderer. A deadly game of cat and mouse ensues as the psychopathic killer plots the death of his young niece to protect his secret.
Series
Publisher
SuperValue DVD Corp
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The little princess: Story of a little girl who is mistreated by the strict headmistress of a boarding school when it is assumed that her father, a British officer, has been killed in action. Based on a book by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Made for each other: Jane and John Mason, a couple who meet, fall madly in love, marry and quickly have a baby. But while they -- and the audience -- are confident that they are meant for each other, life intercedes...
