The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder - Brossura

Wilder, Thornton

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ISBN 10: 0060765089 ISBN 13: 9780060765088

Casa editrice: Perennial, 2009

Riassunto

A comprehensive collection of letters by the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning writer offers insight into the events and people who shaped his life and work, from his teenage years as a farm hand and his college studies to his relationships with family members and fellow writers. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“Students and devotees of Wilder will find this a useful companion to his literary work.” (Library Journal)

“A staggering range of acquaintance. . . . Wilder was a charmer. . . . His letters are chatty, intimate, appealingly self-deprecating.” (New Republic)

“Wilder’s writing is sharply etched and generous of spirit. [In Selected Letters] he consistently discharges the obligation he imposed on his correspondents: that their letters ‘intimate the alterations of climate in their hearts and minds.’” (Times Literary Supplement (London))

“A book to treasure and to share. . . . A remarkable collection of letters covering more than 60 years of Thornton Wilder’s life that become, in page after page, a blueprint of this brilliant, compassionate, truthful, loving man whose wit and superb command of language include the reader in a history of his friendships, of his family.” (Marian Seldes)

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.

Jackson R. Bryer is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Maryland. He is the coeditor of Selected Letters of Eugene O'Neill and of Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.

Robin G. Wilder is an independent scholar with a Ph.D. in history who specializes in archival research. She is the niece by marriage of Thornton Wilder and knew him well.

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• Editore: Perennial
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0060765089
• ISBN 13: 9780060765088
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 729
• Redattore: Wilder Robin G., Bryer Jackson R.