Thornton Wilder wurde am 17. April 1897 in Madison, Wisconsin, als Sohn eines Zeitungsverlegers geboren, der als Generalkonsul nach Hongkong und Schanghai ging. Thornton Wilder erhielt für sein umfangreiches literarisches Werk zahlreiche Auszeichnungen, u. a. dreimal den Pulitzer-Preis und 1957 in Frankfurt am Main den Friedenspreis des deutschen Buchhandels. Er starb am 7. Dezember 1975 in Hamden, Connecticut.
39 Ebooks von Thornton Wilder
Thornton Wilder: The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder, Volume I
Thornton Wilder, author of such landmark works for the stage as
Our Town and
The Skin of Our Teeth as well as the classic novel
The Bridges of San Luis Rey is considered one of America’s grea …
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Thornton Wilder: The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder, Volume II
The publication of volume two of this landmark collection celebrates the close of the centennial year of Thornton Wilder’s birth. This volume collects 17 plays from the author’s three-minute and fi …
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Henrik Ibsen: A Doll’s House
‚In [Wilder’s] A Doll’s House . . . the relationship of dialogue to action is very special, like nothing that had been heard on stage before.’—David Hammond, Play Makers Repertory Company
Not sta …
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Thornton Wilder: Die Cabala
Thornton Wilders Roman ›Die Cabala‹ schildert die Begegnung eines jungen Amerikaners mit einem Kreis seltsamer junger Leute in Rom – Menschen, die wie Götter leben.
Dem nüchternen jungen Mann ist …
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Thornton Wilder: Die Frau aus Andros
Thornton Wilders Roman ›Die Frau aus Andros‹ erzählt von einer beeindruckenden Frau in der Spätzeit der griechischen Antike
Eingebunden in Hinweise auf das »Land, das bald das Heilige genannt werden …
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Thornton Wilder: Dem Himmel bin ich auserkoren
Thornton Wilders ›Dem Himmel bin ich auserkoren‹ ist ein Roman über die Tragik und die Komik unseres Lebens, eine satirische Spiegelung der US-amerikanischen Gesellschaft der 1930er-Jahre. …
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Thornton Wilder: Die Iden des März
›Die Iden des März‹ – Thornton Wilders erzählerisches Hauptwerk über die letzten Tage der Römischen Republik unter Julius Caesar
In diesem großen Roman um Leben und Sterben von Julius Caesar …
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Thornton Wilder: Der achte Schöpfungstag
National Book Award für den besten amerikanischen Roman des Jahres 1967
Vordergründig ist diese amerikanische Saga eine Kriminalgeschichte: Ein unschuldig wegen Mordes zum Tode Verurteilter wird auf …
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Thornton Wilder: Theophilus North oder Ein Heiliger wider Willen
Thornton Wilders letzter Roman – sein autobiographischster, sein menschenfreudlichster.
Überall, wo er auftaucht, gelingt es Theophilus North auf wundersame Weise, die Dinge ins Lot zu bringen. Er …
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Thornton Wilder: Die Tagebücher 1939-1961
Thornton Wilder: Die Tagebücher des großen klassischen Autors der modernen amerikanischen Literatur
Thornton Wilders Tagebücher bieten eine faszinierende Möglichkeit, einen der bedeutendsten …
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Thornton Wilder: Die Brücke von San Luis Rey
Die Wiederentdeckung des größten Klassikers der amerikanischen Literatur – erstmalig seit 1929 in neuer Übersetzung.
»Da ist ein Land der Lebenden und ein Land der Toten, und die Brücke zwischen …
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Jackson R. Bryer & Robin Gibbs Wilder: Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder
Spanning his entire life, The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder is a comprehensive and fascinating collection of the great American writers correspondence. The author of such classics as Our Town …
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Thornton Wilder: Cabala and The Woman of Andros
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 …
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Thornton Wilder: Eighth Day
[Wilder’s] finest and most beautiful novel. . . . Spanning two continents and several generations, it begins as a murder mystery and goes on to tell a story, at once dramatic and philosophical, about …
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Thornton Wilder: Matchmaker
Loud, slap dash and uproarious…extraordinarily original and funny."New York Times Now, for the first time in a standalone edition, Thornton Wilder’s brilliant, hilarious play which was adapted …
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Thornton Wilder: Theophilus North
An extremely entertaining array of American life in a bygone era.New Yorker The last of Thornton Wilders works published during his lifetime, Theophilus North is part autobiographical and part the …
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Thornton Wilder: Cabala
i Wilder’s first novel, originally published in 1926, explores the self-consciously decadent world of Rome after World War I. Its protagonist – Samuele, an American student – is drawn into the …
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Thornton Wilder: Woman of Andros and The Ides of March
i First published in 1930, Wilder’s bestselling novel The Woman of Andros is set on the obscure Greek island of Brynos before the birth of Christ. It explores universal questions of what is precious …
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Thornton Wilder: Bridge of San Luis Rey
An ancient bridge collapses over a gorge in Peru, hurling five people into the abyss. It seems a meaningless human tragedy. But one witness, a Franciscan monk, believes the deaths might not be as …
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Thornton Wilder: Our Town and Other Plays
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 …
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SparkNotes & Thornton Wilder: Our Town (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
Our Town (Spark Notes Literature Guide) by Thornton Wilder Making the reading experience fun!
Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, Spark Notes is a new breed of study guide: s …
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Wilder Thornton Wilder: Heaven’s My Destination
One morning in the late summer of 1930 the proprietor and several guests at the Union Hotel at Crestcrego, Texas, were annoyed to discover Biblical texts freshly written across the blotter on the …
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Thornton Wilder: Skin of Our Teeth
A timeless statement about human foibles…and human endurance, The Skin of Our Teeth is Thornton Wilders brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning play, now reissued with a beautiful new cover and updated …
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Thornton Wilder: Three Plays
Thornton Wilder will survive. . . as long as there are people around who are willing to sit in something called a theater and be reminded of their common humanity. New York Times From celebrated …
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Thornton Wilder: Our Town
[Our Town] leaves us with a sense of blessing, and the unspoken but palpable command to achieve gratitude in what remains of our days on earth. The New Yorker Thornton Wilders Pulitzer Prize-winning …
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Thornton Wilder: Ides of March
The classic Thornton Wilder novelthat recreates the dazzling ancient Roman empire of Julius Caesarnow with a new introduction by Jeremy Mc Carter, author of Young Radicalsand co-author (with …
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Thornton Wilder: Cabala
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 …
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Thornton Wilder: The Bridge of San Luis Rey
First published in 1927 and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1928, “The Bridge of San Luis Rey” is the moving story of a tragic accident and its aftermath by American author Thornton Wilder. The novel …
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Thornton Wilder: The Bridge of San Luis Rey
In eighteenth-century Peru, a historic bridge connecting the cities of Cuzco and Lima collapses, plunging five people to their deaths. A Franciscan monk, Brother Juniper, witnesses the tragedy and …
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Thornton Wilder: The Bridge of San Luis Rey
The Bridge of San Luis Rey is a novel written by
Thornton Wilder and first published in 1927. The novel tells the story of five people who were on the Bridge of San Luis Rey, an Inca rope bri …
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Thornton Wilder: The Bridge of San Luis Rey
First published in 1927 and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1928, “The Bridge of San Luis Rey” is the moving story of a tragic accident and its aftermath by American author Thornton …
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€0.99
Thornton Wilder: Heaven’s My Destination
If John Steinbecks mighty Grapes of Wrath is the tragic novel of the Great Depression, then Heavens My Destination is its comic masterpiece. J.D. Mc Clatchy A hilarious tale about goodness in a …
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Thornton Wilder: Cabala and The Woman of Andros
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 …
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€12.68
Thornton Wilder: Bridge of San Luis Rey
The definitive edition of Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic with a foreword by acclaimed author Russell Banks and an afterword by Wilder’s nephew, Tappan Wilder, with illuminating …
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Thornton Wilder: The Bridge of San Luis Rey
The Bridge of San Luis Rey tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the bridge. A friar who …
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Thornton Wilder: Bridge of San Luis Rey
The collapse of a rope bridge in Peru sets a friar on a quest to learn about those who were lost in this classic, Nobel Prize–winning novel.Peru, 1714. On the road between Lima and Cuzco, a …
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Thornton Wilder: The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
Listed Among Time Magazine’s 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005
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