Our town ; The skin of our teeth ; The matchmaker

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Our town ; The skin of our teeth ; The matchmaker

Thornton Wilder

(Penguin classics)

Penguin Books, 2000

Other Title

Our town and other plays

Our town

The skin of our teeth

The matchmaker

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Note

"First published together in Great Britain by Longmans 1956"--T.p. verso

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Finding the theatre of the 1920s lacking in bite and conviction, Thornton Wilder set out to bring back realism and to celebrate the innocent, simple and religious. Yet he also tried to endow individual experience with cosmic significance and Our Town is both an affectionate portrait of American life and 'an attempt to find a value above all price for the smallest events in our daily life'. The Skin of our Teeth deals with human survival in a 'comic strip' way, and The Matchmaker is a hilarious farce which urges rebellion against all the constraints that deny a rich, full life.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA49305061
  • ISBN
    • 0141184582
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Harmondsworth
  • Pages/Volumes
    280 p.
  • Size
    20 cm
  • Classification
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