The Cabala And The Woman Of Andros
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The Cabala And The Woman Of Andros
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Author : Thornton Wilder
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2022-08-09
The Cabala And The Woman Of Andros written by Thornton Wilder and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-09 with Fiction categories.
“For much of the twentieth century, these remarkable early novels were hidden in the great shadow of The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Now we can examine them in the spotlight for the gifts that they are—memorable monuments to style and keys to understanding Wilder’s genius.” – Penelope Niven, Thornton Wilder Biographer Featuring a foreword by Penelope Niven and a revealing afterword by Wilder’s nephew, Tappan, this reissue reintroduces the reader to the Thornton Wilder’s first novel, The Cabala, and to The Woman of Andros, one of the inspirations for his Pulitzer Prize-winning play Our Town. A young American student spends a year in the exotic world of post-World War I Rome. While there, he experiences firsthand the waning days of a secret community (a "cabala") of decaying royalty, a great cardinal of the Roman Church, and an assortment of memorable American ex-pats. The Cabala, a semiautobiographical novel of unforgettable characters and human passions, launched Wilder's career as a celebrated storyteller and dramatist. The Woman of Andros, set on the obscure Greek island of Brynos before the birth of Christ, explores universal questions of what is precious about life and how we live, love, and die. Eight years later, Wilder would pose the same questions on the stage in a play titled Our Town, also set in an obscure location, this time a village in New Hampshire. The Woman of Andros is celebrated for some of the most beautiful writing in American literature.
The Cabala And The Woman Of Andros
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Author : Thornton Wilder
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
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The Cabala
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Author : Thornton Wilder
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2022-01-01
The Cabala written by Thornton Wilder and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-01 with Fiction categories.
A young American in Rome encounters a mysterious cohort of aristocrats in the Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s debut novel. In love with all things classical, the narrator of Thornton Wilder’s The Cabala is entranced by the timeless city of Rome. With the Great War finally over, he’s spending a year among Rome’s salons and cafes. But he only comes to understand the grand and crumbling metropolis when a friend introduces him to a secret society of intellectuals known as the Cabala. Charmed by the young American, the elegant and idiosyncratic members of the Cabala give him the nickname Samuele. He soon becomes their confidant and go-between, privy to their intimate dramas, scandals, and insecurities. As living embodiments of ancient gods, these peculiar characters impress upon Samuele that nothing in life is truly eternal. The Cabala is a semiautobiographical novel based on Thornton Wilder’s time at the American Academy in Rome during the 1920s. First published in 1926, it launched his reputation as one of his generation’s finest storytellers.
A Thornton Wilder Trio
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Author : Thornton Wilder
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
A Thornton Wilder Trio written by Thornton Wilder and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with categories.
"Each of the novels is a special achievement, different in its own fashion from any other novels written at the time, or since. The Woman of Andros is a Greek pastoral as beautifully handled as the figures on a Greek vase. It contrasts with The Bridge of San Luis Rey, which is a fable (perhaps more Buddhist than Christian in its feeling), as much as with The Cabala, which is an album of boldly depicted characters. All three novels, different as they are from one another, have something in common besides their economy of statement and their felicity of style. Perhaps it is the quality that was praised by Henry James in his little book on Hawthorne. There he said, speaking of The Scarlet Letter, 'It has about it that charm, very hard to express, which we find in an artist's work the first time he has touched his highest mark--a sort of straightness and naturalness of execution, and unconsciousness of his public, and freshness of interest in his theme.' These books have that quality too, and they ask to be reread."--From back cover.
The Woman Of Andros
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Author : Thornton Wilder
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000-06-01
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Thornton Wilder The Bridge Of San Luis Rey And Other Novels 1926 1948 Loa 194
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Author : Thornton Wilder
language : en
Publisher: Library of America Thornton Wi
Release Date : 2009-08-20
Thornton Wilder The Bridge Of San Luis Rey And Other Novels 1926 1948 Loa 194 written by Thornton Wilder and has been published by Library of America Thornton Wi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-20 with Fiction categories.
Presents an anthology of novels, short stories, and essays.
Anne Of Green Gables 100th Anniversary Edition
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Author : L. M. Montgomery
language : en
Publisher: SeaWolf Press
Release Date : 2023-01-14
Anne Of Green Gables 100th Anniversary Edition written by L. M. Montgomery and has been published by SeaWolf Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-14 with categories.
Thornton Wilder In Collaboration
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Author : Jackson R. Bryer
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2018-12-17
Thornton Wilder In Collaboration written by Jackson R. Bryer and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
The essays in this volume evolved from papers presented at the Second International Thornton Wilder Conference, held at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island, in June 2015. They examine Wilder’s work as both playwright and novelist, focusing upon how he drew on the collaborative mode of creativity required in the theatre, when writing both drama and fiction. The book’s authors use the term “collaboration” in its broadest sense, at times in response to Wilder’s critics who faulted him for “borrowing” from other, earlier, literary works rather than recognizing these “borrowings” as central to the artistic process of collaboration. In exploring Wilder’s collaborative efforts of different kinds, the essays not only consider how Wilder worked with and revised earlier literary texts and the ideas central to those texts, but also analyze how Wilder worked with and inspired other creative individuals and how recent productions of Wilder’s plays, both in the US and abroad, have been the products of unique forms of collaboration.
Thornton Wilder
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Author : Helmut Papajewski
language : en
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Release Date : 1969
Thornton Wilder written by Helmut Papajewski and has been published by Burns & Oates this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Literary Criticism categories.
A European professor's appraisal of Wilder's works. A chapter is devoted to each of the six novels including the latest (The eighth).
Thornton Wilder Classical Reception And American Literature
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Author : Stephen J. Rojcewicz, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-11-25
Thornton Wilder Classical Reception And American Literature written by Stephen J. Rojcewicz, Jr. and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-25 with History categories.
This book delineates how Thornton Wilder (1897–1975), a learned playwright and novelist, embeds himself within the classical tradition, integrating Greek and Roman motifs with a wide range of sources to produce heart-breaking masterpieces such as Our Town and comedy sensations such as Dolly Levi. Through this study of archival sources and close reading, readers will understand Wilder’s avant-garde staging and innovative time sequences not as a break with the past, but as a response to the classics. The author traces the genesis of unforgettable characters like Dolly Levi in The Matchmaker, Emily Webb in Our Town, and George Antrobus in The Skin of Our Teeth. Vergil’s expression, "Here are the tears of the world, and human matters touch the heart" haunts Wilder’s oeuvre. Understanding Vergil’s phrase as "tears for the beauty of the world," Wilder utilizes scenes depicting the beauty of the world and the sorrow when individuals recognize this too late. Wilder exhorts us to observe lovingly, alert to the wonder of the everyday. This work will appeal to actors and directors, professors and students in classics and in American literature, those fascinated by modern drama and performance studies, and non-specialists, theatre-goers, and readers in the general public.