Contents (8)
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“For an American dramatist, all roads lead back to Thornton Wilder.” —Paul Vogel, foreword to The Skin of Our Teeth
THREE PLAYS
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“These plays are a gift.” —John Guare, foreword to Three Plays
LETTERS
THE SELECTED LETTERS OF THORNTON WILDER Edited by Robin G. Wilder and Jackson R. Bryer
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“A remarkable collection. . . . What emerges from these pages is a new and sometimes surprising self-portrait of a great American artist.” —Marian Seldes
BIOGRAPHY
THORNTON WILDER: A LIFE by Penelope Niven
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“The best kind of literary biography, one likely to send the reader back (or perhaps for the first time) to the author’s works.” —Washington Post
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Also by Thornton Wilder
Novels
The Cabala
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
The Woman of Andros
Heaven’s My Destination
The Ides of March
The Eighth Day
Theophilus North
Collections of Short Plays
The Angel That Troubled the Waters and Other Plays
The Long Christmas Dinner & Other Plays in One Act
Plays
Our Town
The Skin of Our Teeth
The Matchmaker
The Alcestiad
A Doll’s House
Essays
American Characteristics and Other Essays
The Journals of Thornton Wilder, 1939–1961
Credits
Cover design by Catherine Casalino
Cover photographs: © Colleen Farrel / Arcangel (hat and suitcase); © Andrew Paterson / Getty Images (feather)
Copyright
THE MATCHMAKER. © 1939 (an earlier version entitled “The Merchant of Yonkers”), 1955, 1957, 1966 The Wilder Family LLC. Introduction © 2017 by Ken Ludwig. Afterword © 2017 by Tappan Wilder. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
THE MATCHMAKER is here reprinted by arrangement with the estate of Thornton Wilder.
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