Thornton Wilder

The Eighth Day is a 1967 novel by Thornton Wilder. Set in a mining town in southern Illinois, the plot revolved around John Barrington Ashley, who is accused of murdering his neighbor Breckenridge Lansing. The novel was written over the course of twenty months while Wilder was living alone in Douglas, Arizona. The …

Drawing on such unique sources as Thornton Wilder's unpublished letters, journals, and selections from the extensive annotations Wilder made years later in the margins of the book, Tappan Wilder's Afterword adds a special dimension to the reissue of this internationally acclaimed novel.The Ides of March, first …

Cualquier vida es tragica en la medida en que lo permite quien la vive. Publicada en 1973, Theophilus North fue la ultima gran obra de Thornton Wilder, que doto a su personaje de su propia y excentrica personalidad y recobro con ella algunos episodios de su juventud. El joven graduado en Yale Teophilus North emprende …

Thornton Wilder : collected plays & writings on theater is a compilation book with writings by Thornton Wilder.