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  • The Cabala
    Thornton Wilder
    Ironic and self-ironic, unapologetically literary, urbane and heady. Reads, for the most part, like Woolf or Forster, occasionally reaching wry delights: 'When the bourgeoisie discovered that she was accepting invitations there was a tumult as of many waters.'This is a book where you get the feeling that the trees, as it were, are more important than the forest. And then, after...
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    16,76 €

  • The Cabala
    Thornton Wilder
    'The Cabala' by way of Thornton Wilder, is a singular that delves into the complexities of human relationships and the search for which means in lifestyles. Wilder, an American playwright and novelist, is pleasant acknowledged for his acclaimed works together with 'Our Town' and 'The Bridge of San Luis Rey.' Set in Rome, the unconventional follows the reviews of Samuele, a youn...
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    12,20 €

  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey
    Thornton Wilder
    In Lima, Peru, an ancient Incan rope bridge breaks and plunges five people to their deaths. A Franciscan monk witnesses it and decides to investigate the lives of the five people, in order to prove that God is just, that He had a purpose in choosing those five to die, on that day, on that bridge.And so we learn of the lives of the Marquesa de Santamayor and young Pepita her com...
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    9,86 €

  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey
    Thornton Wilder
    The story centers on a fictional event that happened in Peru on the road between Lima and Cuzco, at noon on Friday, July the twentieth, 1714. A rope bridge woven by the Inca a century earlier collapsed at that particular moment, while five people were crossing it, sending them falling from a great height to their deaths in the river below. The collapse was witnessed by Brother ...
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    14,47 €

  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey
    Thornton Wilder
    First published in 1927 and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1928, 'The Bridge of San Luis Rey' is the moving story of a tragic accident and its aftermath by American author Thornton Wilder. The novel tells the fictional story of the victims of a horrific collapse of an Incan rope bridge in Peru and how they came to be on the bridge on that fateful day. Set in the early 18th cen...
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    29,70 €

  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey
    Thornton Wilder
    First published in 1927 and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1928, 'The Bridge of San Luis Rey' is the moving story of a tragic accident and its aftermath by American author Thornton Wilder. The novel tells the fictional story of the victims of a horrific collapse of an Incan rope bridge in Peru and how they came to be on the bridge on that fateful day. Set in the early 18th cen...
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    11,25 €

  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey
    Thornton Wilder
    2023 Reprint of the 1927 U.S. Edition.  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 ind...
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    11,95 €

  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey
    Thornton Wilder
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the bridge. A friar who witnesses the accident then goes about inquiring into the lives of the victims, seeking some sort of cosmic answer to the question of why each had to die. Is there a direction or m...
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    8,11 €

  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey
    Thornton Wilder
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the bridge. A friar who witnesses the accident then goes about inquiring into the lives of the victims, seeking some sort of cosmic answer to the question of why each had to die. Is there a direction or m...
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    15,35 €

  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey
    Thornton Wilder
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder’s second novel. It was first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928, and was the best-selling work of fiction that year. The Bridge of San Luis Rey tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope bridge in Peru, and the events that lead ...
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    13,88 €

  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey
    Thornton Wilder
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the bridge. A friar who witnesses the accident then goes about inquiring into the lives of the victims, seeking some sort of cosmic answer to the question of why each had to die.The Bridge of San Luis Rey...
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    11,84 €

  • Thornton Wilder’s Playlets
    Thornton Wilder
    This anthology by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Thornton Wilder is acollection of twenty-two very short plays, three of which are published herefor the very first time. These snapshots of the creative spirit at play explorea variety of complex characters that range from the ordinary to the biblical,the haunted to the mystical. From the tale of a conflicted composer with ast...
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    21,17 €

  • Our Town
    Thornton Wilder
    '[Our Town] leaves us with a sense of blessing, and the unspoken but palpable command to achieve gratitude in what remains of our days on earth.' -- The New YorkerThornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the mythical village of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire--an allegorical representation of all life--is an American classic. It is the simple story of a love af...
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    13,88 €

  • The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder
    Jackson R Bryer / Robin Gibbs Wilder / Thornton Wilder
    Spanning his entire life, The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder is a comprehensive and fascinating collection of the great American writer’s correspondence. The author of such classics as Our Town and The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder was a born storyteller and dramatist--rare talents on glorious display in this volume of more than three hundred letters he penned to...
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    17,19 €

  • A Doll’s House
    Henrik Ibsen / Thornton Wilder
    An adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's most notable play about a waning marriage, and the social constructs between a husband and wife.Thornton Wilder's acting version of A Doll's House premiered on Broadway at the Morsco Theatre in December 1937, under the direction of Jed Harris.  ...
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    19,07 €

  • Theophilus North (One-Act Version)
    Matthew Burnett / Thornton Wilder
    Set in the tony resort town of Newport, RI, during the height of the Jazz Age in summer, 1926, Theophilus North follows the exploits of the title character as he searches for adventure and his place in the world. Quitting his teaching position in New Jersey, and stranded in Newport after his jalopy breaks down, thirty-year-old Theophilus takes odd jobs (tennis instructor, Frenc...
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    13,63 €

  • The Alcestiad
    Thornton Wilder
    Thornton Wilder referred to The Alcestiad as 'a mixture of religiousrevival, mother-love-dynamite, and heroic daring-do.' In it, he retells theancient legend of Alcestis, Queen of Thessaly, who gave her life for herhusband Admetus, beloved of Apollo, and was brought back from Hellby Hercules. When the brave and confused Alcestis returns from thedead, asking large questions abou...
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    15,48 €

  • The Ides of March
    Thornton Wilder
    'Mr. Wilder has brought to his character the warmth which was totally lacking in the Caesar of schoolbooks and Shakespeare, and in his hero’s destruction there is the true catharsis.' --Edward Weeks, AtlanticFirst published in 1948, The Ides of March is a brilliant epistolary novel of the Rome of Julius Caesar. Through imaginary letters and documents, Wilder brings to life a dr...
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    16,09 €

  • The Seven Deadly Sins
    Thornton Wilder
    Welcome to a new collection of Thornton Wilder’s last plays - a series of one acts that were part of his extravagantly ambitious project to creat two one act play cycles based on the Deadly Sins and the Ages of Man. Published for the first time in a single acting edition, Wilder’s The Seven Deadly Sins presents a series of short works depicting the complexity and consequences o...
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    18,94 €

  • The Beaux’ Stratagem
    George Farquhar / Thornton Wilder
    From the play by George FarquharComedyCharacters: 8 male, 5female, with doubling Various Locations The play tells the story of two young bucks who, having spent all their money by living too well, leave London and roam from town to town in search of love and fortune. In order to find a wealthy heiress for at least one of them, they pose as master and servant - exchanging r...
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    15,54 €

  • Matchmaker
    Thornton Wilder
    Farce / Casting: 9m, 7f / Interior SceneryA certain old merchant of Yonkers is so rich in 1800 that he decides to take a wife. He employs a matchmaker a woman who subsequently becomes involved with two of his menial clerks, assorted young and lovely ladies, and the headwaiter at an expensive restaurant where this swift farce runs headlong into a hilarious complications. After e...
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    19,00 €

  • American Characteristics and Other Essays
    Thornton Wilder
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    22,96 €