NOVELS
THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY
ISBN 0-06-008887-7 (paperback)
Foreword by Russell Banks
The Bridge of San Luis Rey opens in the aftermath of an inexplicable tragedy—a footbridge in Peru breaks and five people fall to their deaths. For Brother Juniper, a humble monk who witnesses the catastrophe, the question is inescapable: why those five? Through the device of Brother Juniper’s drive to understand whether their deaths were caused by fate or divine intervention, Wilder’s 1928 Pulitzer Prize–winning novel explores what is important and what is lasting about life and living.
“One of the greatest reading novels in this century’s American writing.”
—Edmund Fuller
THEOPHILUS NORTH
ISBN 0-06-008892-3 (paperback)
Foreword by Christopher Buckley
An exhausted 29-year-old teacher arrives in Newport, Rhode Island, in the summer of 1926. To support himself, he takes jobs in the great homes of families living along Ocean Drive—playing the roles of tutor, spy, confidante, lover, friend, and enemy in the colorful, tension-filled upstairs-and-downstairs world of Newport in the golden 1920s. Along the way, the novel raises gentle but trenchant questions about what’s important, the nature and role of youth, and what wealth does to those who have it and those who do not.
“A testimony to the human race.”
—New York Times Book Review
HEAVEN’S MY DESTINATION
ISBN 0-06-008889-3 (paperback)
Foreword by J. D. McClatchy
First published in 1934, Heaven’s My Destination contains one of Wilder’s most memorable characters: the heroic traveling textbook salesman George Marvin Brush. George’s territory is the Midwest and, as a fervent religious convert, he is determined to lead a good Christian life. But his travels take him through smoking cars, bawdy houses, and trailer camps of Depression-era America with often hilarious results.
“A good sardonic etching of this most godless of American ages.”
—Commonweal
THE CABALA AND THE WOMAN OF ANDROS
ISBN 0-06-051857-X (paperback)
Foreword by Penelope Niven
Two of Wilder’s early novels are collected here: The Cabala (1926), a fantasy about American expatriates, and The Woman of Andros (1930), a novel in which Wilder creates a character that serves as his archetype of the virtue of hope.
THE IDES OF MARCH
ISBN 0-06-008890-7 (paperback)
Foreword by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
First published in 1948, The Ides of March is a brilliant epistolary novel of Julius Caesar’s Rome. Through imaginary letters and documents, Wilder brings to life a dramatic period of world history and one of its magnetic personalities.
“What distinguishes [The Ides of March] is a rich, shrewd, and glowing characterization of Caesar’s restless mind.”
—New York Times
THE EIGHTH DAY
ISBN 0-06-008891-5 (paperback)
Foreword by John Updike
First published in 1967, near the end of Wilder’s life, this novel moves back and forth through the 20th-century, telling the story of a talented inventor accused of murder.
PLAYS
THREE PLAYS
Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Matchmaker
ISBN 0-06-051264-4 (paperback)
Foreword by John Guare
This omnibus volume brings together the definitive texts of three outstanding plays.
OUR TOWN: A PLAY
ISBN 0-06-051263-6 (paperback)
Foreword by Donald Margulies
First produced and published in 1938, this Pulitzer Prize–winning drama of life in the small village of Grover’s Corners has become an American classic and is Thornton Wilder’s most renowned and most frequently performed play.
“Mr. Wilder has transmuted the simple events of human life into universal reverie. . . . One of the finest achievements of the current stage.”
—Brooks Atkinson
THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH: A PLAY
ISBN 0-06-008893-1 (paperback)
Foreword by Paula Vogel
Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize–winning (1943) madcap comedy of how the Antrobus family and its maid prevail over successive catastrophes.
“It is not easy to think of any other American play with so good a chance of being acted a hundred years from now.”
—Alexander Woollcott, Atlantic Monthly, 1944
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