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(0)Thornton Wilder
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." With this celebrated sentence, Thornton Wilder begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the towering achievements in American fiction and a novel read throughout the world. By chance, a monk witnesses the tragedy. Brother Juniper seeks to prove that it was divine intervention rather than chance that led to the deaths...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Setting out to see the world in the summer of 1926, Theophilus North gets as far as Newport, Rhode Island, before his car breaks down. To support himself, Theophilus takes jobs in the elegant mansions along Ocean Drive, just as Wilder himself did in the same decade. Soon the young man finds himself playing the roles of tutor, tennis coach, spy, confidant, lover, friend and enemy as he becomes entangled in adventure and intrigue in Newport's fabulous...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 194
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
6) Hello, Dolly
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Musical set in the 1890's about a professional matchmaker who meets her match
7) Our town
Series
Publisher
PBS Broadcasting Service
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Stage production of Wilder's play; a study of life, love, and death in a New England town at the turn of the 20th century.
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A calculating and charming killer hides out in his relatives' small hometown. There, he befriends his favorite niece and namesake, who begins to suspect her uncle may be the famed Merry Widow murderer. A deadly game of cat and mouse ensues as the psychopathic killer plots the death of his young niece to protect his secret.