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Library of America Thornton Wilder Edition Ser.: Thornton Wilder: the Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels 1926-1948 (LOA #194) : The Cabala / the Bridge of San Luis Rey / the Woman of Andros / Heaven's My Destination / the Ides of March / Stories and Essays by Thornton Wilder (2009, Hardcover)

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Thornton Wilder was the rare writer whose achievements as a playwright were matched by equal abilities as a novelist. As companion to its volume of Wilder's collected plays, The Library of America's edition of his early novels and stories brings together five novels that highlight his wit, erudition, innovative formal structures, and philosophical wisdom. Drawing on the post-collegiate year he spent in Rome, Wilder fashioned in The Cabala a tale of youthful enchantment with the Eternal City in the form of a fictitious memoir of an American student and the enigmatic coterie of noble Romans who draw him into their midst. He followed this debut novel two years later with The Bridge of San Luis Rey , which catapulted him to literary prominence and earned him the first of his three Pulitzer prizes. Set in 18th-century Peru, the book is a kind of theological detective story concerning a friar's investigations into the lives of five individuals before they were killed in a bridge collapse. An elegantly told parable, with credible historical ambience and psychologically rounded characters, The Bridge of San Luis Rey is primarily a probing inquiry into the nature of destiny: Why did God allow these particular people to die? The Woman of Andros , based on the Andria of Roman writer Terence, is a meditation on the ancient world filtered through the sensibility of a meditative courtesan; Heaven's My Destination , a departure from Wilder's historical themes, is a picaresque romp through Depression-era America; and The Ides of March takes up the story of Julius Caesar's assassination by imagining the exchange of letters among such prominent ancient figures as Catullus, Cleopatra, Cicero, and Caesar himself, "groping in the open seas of his unlimited power for the first principles which should guide him." The volume concludes with a selection of early short stories--among them "Précautions Inutiles," published here for the first time--and a selection of essays that offers Wilder's insights into the works of Stein and Joyce, as well as a lecture on letter writers that bears on both The Bridge of San Luis Rey and The Ides of March . LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

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Library of America, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1598530453
ISBN-13
9781598530452
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72390205

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Author
Thornton Wilder
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Literary, Historical, Fiction

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8.1in
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1.2in
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5.2in
Item Weight
22.4 Oz

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Book Title
Thornton Wilder: the Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels 1926-1948 (LOA #194) : The Cabala / the Bridge of San Luis Rey / the Woman of Andros / Heaven's My Destination / the Ides of March / Stories and Essays
Series Volume Number
2
Lc Classification Number
Ps3545.I345b7 2009
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
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Up
Reviews
"Wilder is a novelist of morals. . . . They are answers found by individuals to the old problems of faith, hope, charity or love, art, duty, submission to one's fate . . . and hence they are relatively universal; they can be illustrated from the lives of any individuals, in any place, at any time since the beginning of time. . . . The characters in Wilder's novels and plays are looking for such answers." --Malcolm Cowley
Copyright Date
2009
Format
Hardcover
Lccn
2009-923634
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Library of America Thornton Wilder Edition Ser.
Publication Year
2009
Number of Pages
750 Pages

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