The Cabala and The Woman of Andros: Two Novels - Brossura

Wilder, Thornton

Brossura

ISBN 10: 006051857X ISBN 13: 9780060518578

Casa editrice: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2007

Riassunto

In The Cabala, a group of idiosyncratic women and a Catholic cardinal in post World War I Italy find their lives transformed by the arrival of Samuele, a young American, while The Woman of Andros focuses on Chrysis, a beautiful courtesan, and her interactions with a variety of characters on the remote Greek island of Byrnos prior to the birth of Christ. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

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. His Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of 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). Wilder's The Matchmaker was adapted as the musical Hello, Dolly!. He also enjoyed enormous success with many other forms of the written and spoken word, among them teaching, acting, the opera, and films. (His screenplay for Hitchcock's Shadow of Doubt [1943] remains a classic psycho-thriller to this day.) Wilder'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.

Product Description:

Featuring an illuminating new foreword by Penelope Niven and a revealing afterword by Tappan Wilder, this reissue of two early books by Thornton Wilder reintroduces the reader to the author's first novel, The Cabala, and to The Woman of Andros, one of the inspirations for his Pulitzer Prize-winning play Our Town.

A young American student spends a year in the exotic world of post-World War I Rome. While there, he experiences firsthand the waning days of a secret community (a "cabala") of decaying royalty, a great cardinal of the Roman Church, and an assortment of memorable American ex-pats. The Cabala, a semiautobiographical novel of unforgettable characters and human passions, launched Wilder's career as a celebrated storyteller and dramatist.

The Woman of Andros, Wilder's best-selling novel, published in 1930, is set on the obscure Greek island of Brynos before the birth of Christ, and explores Everyman questions of what is precious about life and how we live, love, and die. Eight years later, Wilder would pose the same questions on the stage in a play titled Our Town, also set in an obscure location, this time a village in New Hampshire. The Woman of Andros is celebrated for some of the most beautiful writing in American literature.

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• Editore: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 006051857X
• ISBN 13: 9780060518578
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 257