Our Town

Our Town

A Play in Three Acts

by Thornton Wilder
Publisher: HarperCollins
Trade Paperback, 181 pages
Price: $14.99
Used Price: $7.50 (4 in stock) Condition Policy

Historical Setting: New Hampshire, 1901-1913 A. D.

A handsome Perennial Classics edition of America's favorite play, Our Town, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

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.

This Perennial Classics edition includes a foreword by Donald Margulies and contains an afterword with documentary material edited by Tappan Wilder.

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FLAWS: Bleak humanistic nuances
Summary: A glimpse into the lives of some dead citizens of a New England town reveals that few individuals understand or appreciate life while they're living it.

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