Most Popular Books by Thornton Wilder

Thornton Wilder is the author of The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927), The Long Christmas Dinner (1960), The Alcestiad (1977), The Cabala (1926), Monarch Notes on Wilder's Our Town, the Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Works (1965).

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The Long Christmas Dinner

The Long Christmas Dinner
Ninety years of Christmas dinners at the Bayard home.

The Alcestiad

The Alcestiad
The Alcestiad by Thornton Wilder tells the story of Admetus, King of Thessaly (rich in horses), his wife Alcestis, and the triumphs and tragedies they endure as favorites of the god Apollo. Every major event in their marriage is a direct result of the interference of Apollo, though this is not made clear in The Alcestiad. Rather, the extent of Apollo’s involvement is made clear in the accompanying satyr play, The Drunken Sisters. --readingandruminations.wordpress.com.

The Cabala

The Cabala
In Wilder''s first novel, The Cabala (1926), Samuele, an American student, spends a year in the fabulously decadent world of post-World War I Rome. He experiences first-hand the waning days of a secret community--a "cabala" composed of decaying European royalty, eccentric expatriate Americans, even a great cardinal of the Roman Church. The vivid portraits he paints of these characters, whom he views as the vestigial representatives of the gods and goddesses of Ancient Rome, launched Thornton Wilder''s career as a celebrated storyteller and literary stylist. --ww.thorntonwilder.com.

Monarch Notes on Wilder's Our Town, the Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Works

The Happy Journey to Camden and Trenton

The Happy Journey to Camden and Trenton
"A father, mother and two of their three surviving children drive from Newark, New Jersey, to Camden to visit their married daughter, who has recently lost her baby in childbirth. Their journey is punctuated by talk, laughter, memories (some mundane, some happy, some painful), and appreciation of the Now - ham and eggs, flowers, family, sunsets and the joy of being alive. In this family drama, nothing much happens-and yet everything important happens. As Ma Kirby says, "There''s nothin'' like bein'' liked by your family." - Publisher''s website.

Los idus de marzo (bolsillo)

release date: Mar 01, 2005
Los idus de marzo (bolsillo)
Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) es uno de los escritores más importantes e influyentes del siglo xx. Profesor en las universidades de Harvard y Chicago, en toda su obra se refleja su cosmopolitismo, una amplia y sólida formación humanística y unas extraordinarias dotes de observación de la vida cotidiana. Su primera novela, La Cábala (1926) obtuvo ya un notable éxito de crítica, pero fue El puente de San Luis Rey (1927), por la que obtuvo su primer Premio Pulitzer, la que le situó en primera línea de las letras en lengua inglesa. Sin embargo, fueron sus obras teatrales, y en particular Nuestro Pueblo (Premio Pulitzer 1938 y llevada al cine en 1940 por Sam Wood), La Casamentera (llevada también al cine, por Joseph Anthony, con Shiley MacLaine y Anthony Perkins) y La piel de nuestros dientes (Premio Pulitzer 1943), así como la novela histórica Los idus de marzo (1948), las que le convirtieron en una celebridad.

In Shakespeare and the Bible

release date: Jan 01, 2005

Most San Luis Rey

release date: Jan 01, 1998

The Skin of Our Teeth

release date: Jan 01, 1997

The Angel that Troubled the Waters

release date: Jan 01, 2004

Someone from Assisi

release date: Jan 01, 2004

Die Brücke von San Luis Rey

release date: Jan 01, 1992

Le pont de San Luis Rey

release date: Jan 01, 2014
Le pont de San Luis Rey
Le 20 juillet 1714 à midi, le plus beau pont de tout le Pérou, une passerelle de corde inca, se rompt. Cinq voyageurs sont alors précipités dans le vide, sous les yeux du frère franciscain Genièvre, qui voit dans cette catastrophe l''occasion rêvée de prouver avec rigueur l''existence vengeuse de Dieu. Le Pont de San Luis Rey est un grand roman de la littérature américaine, un classique, récompensé par le prix Pulitzer en 1928, et lu à travers le monde entier.

El Pont de San Luis Rey

release date: Jan 01, 2004
El Pont de San Luis Rey
El dia 20 de juliol de 1714, va cedir i es va ensorrar un vell pont inca, penjat sobre un congost impressionant en el camí que sortia de Lima per anar a Cuzco. L''ensulsiada va precipitar a l''abisme les cinc persones que llavors el creuaven
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