Wilder, Thornton

A tiny footbridge in Peru breaks, and five people hurtle to their deaths. For Brother Juniper, a humble monk who witnesses the catastrophe, the question is: Why those five?.

A collection of seventeen one-act plays by American playwright Thornton Wilder, including the 1931 publication "The Long Christmas Dinner and Other Plays, " and works from two play cycles, "The Seven Deadly Sins" and "The Seven Ages of Man, " which he wrote in the 1950s and 60s.

Three plays by Pulitzer Prize winning author, Thorton Wilder, including Our town, an attempt to find value in the smallest events of daily life; Matchmaker, about the aspirations of people for a fuller, freer participation in life; and The skin of our teeth, which contrasts the events of daily life against the dimensions of time and place.

Collects more than forty works by American playwright Thornton Wilder, as well as fifteen of his writings on his plays and the theater.

Presents three plays by American playwright Thornton Wilder, written between 1938 and 1955, including "Our Town," "The Skin of Our Teeth," and "The Matchmaker.".

Presents the text of the 1943 Pulitzer Prize-winning play in which the Eternal Family, George and Maggie Antrobus, their children Gladys and Henry, and their maid Sabina, endure thousands of years of near disasters.

Portrays life in Grover's Corner, New Hampshire, in the early 1900's through the routine daily events and the major moments in the lives of George Gibbs, Emily Webb, and their families; and how their lives, although mundane, are touched by the universal forces of love, despair, apathy, nature, and death.

A tiny footbridge in Peru breaks, and five people hurtle to their deaths. For Brother Juniper, a humble monk who witnesses the catastrophe, the question is: Why those five?.