Three Plays - Our Town, The Matchmaker, and The Skin of Our Teeth

"[Wilder's] finest and most beautiful novel.

The Eighth Day

Le 20 juillet 1714 à midi, le plus beau pont de tout le Pérou, une passerelle de corde inca, se rompt. Cinq voyageurs sont alors précipités dans le vide, sous les yeux du frère franciscain Genièvre, qui voit dans cette catastrophe l'occasion rêvée de prouver avec rigueur l'existence vengeuse de Dieu. Le Pont de San Luis Rey est un grand roman de la littérature américaine, un classique, récompensé par le prix Pulitzer en 1928, et lu à travers le monde entier.

Le pont de San Luis Rey

Spanning his entire life, The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder is a comprehensive and fascinating collection of the great American writer's correspondence. The author of such classics as Our Town and The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder was a born storyteller and dramatist-rare talents on glorious display in this volume of more than three hundred letters he penned to a vast array of famous friends and beloved relatives. Through Wilder's correspondence, readers can eavesdrop on his conversations with Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Noël Coward, Gene Tunney, Laurence Olivier, Aaron Copland, Paul Hindemith, Leonard Bernstein, Edward Albee, and Mia Farrow. Equally absorbing are Wilder's intimate letters to his family. Wilder tells of roller-skating with Walt Disney, remembers an inaugural reception for FDR at the White House, describes his life as a soldier in two World Wars, and recalls dining out with Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. In these pages, Thornton Wilder speaks for himself in his own unique, enduring voice-informing, encouraging, instructing, and entertaining with his characteristic wit, heart, and exuberance.

The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder

Le prospère commerçant Vandergelder quitte sa bienséante et ennuyeuse province pour se rendre à New York où il tombe entre les mains d'une entremetteuse raffinée et rusée. L'astucieuse Dolly Lévi, marieuse et veuve, arrange des unions matrimoniales tout en tirant son épingle du jeu. Pour arriver à ses fins, elle s'assure la sympathie des deux employés de la boutique du riche commerçant, en les aidant à jouer un tour à leur patron, plutôt avare et bourru. Tous les ingrédients de la comédie classique sont ici réunis pour une pièce multipliant quiproquos, surprises et coup de théâtre.

La Marieuse de Brooklyn - Farce en quatre actes

'The Ides of March', first published in 1948, is a brilliant epistolary novel set in Julius Caesar's Rome. Thornton Wilder called it "a fantasia on certain events and persons of the last days of the Roman republic." Through vividly imagined letters and documents, Wilder brings to life a dramatic period of world history and one of history's most magnetic, elusive personalities.In this inventive narrative, the Caesar of history becomes Caesar the human being. Wilder also resurrects the controversial figures surrounding Caesar - Cleopatra, Catullus, Cicero, and others. All Rome comes crowding through these pages - the Rome of villas and slums, beautiful women and brawling youths, spies and assassins.

Les ides de mars

Le vendredi 20 juillet 1714, à midi, le plus beau pont du Pérou se rompit et précipita cinq personnes dans un gouffre. Ce pont se trouvait sur la grande-route de Lima à Cuzco, et des centaines de voyageurs le franchissaient chaque jour. Datant de plus d'un siècle, il avait été tressé en osier par les Incas, et on ne manquait jamais de le montrer aux visiteurs... Le pont paraissait faire partie des choses qui durent pour l'éternité ; nul n'aurait pensé qu'il pût se rompre un jour...

Le Pont du Roi Saint-Louis

"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 are-memorable monuments to style and keys to understanding Wilder's genius." - Penelope Niven, Thornton Wilder BiographerFeaturing a foreword by Penelope Niven and a revealing afterword by Wilder's nephew, Tappan, this reissue reintroduces the reader to the Thornton Wilder's first novel, The Cabala, and to The Woman of Andros, one of the inspirations for his Pulitzer Prize-winning play Our Town. A young American student spends a year in the exotic world of post-World War I Rome. While there, he experiences firsthand the waning days of a secret community (a "cabala") of decaying royalty, a great cardinal of the Roman Church, and an assortment of memorable American ex-pats. The Cabala, a semiautobiographical novel of unforgettable characters and human passions, launched Wilder's career as a celebrated storyteller and dramatist. The Woman of Andros, set on the obscure Greek island of Brynos before the birth of Christ, explores universal questions of what is precious about life and how we live, love, and die. Eight years later, Wilder would pose the same questions on the stage in a play titled Our Town, also set in an obscure location, this time a village in New Hampshire. The Woman of Andros is celebrated for some of the most beautiful writing in American literature.

The Cabala and The Woman of Andros - Two Novels

Donc, vous qui vivez mille ans après nous, voici ce que nous étions, dans les provinces au nord de New York, au début du vingtième siècle. Nous voici : dans notre adolescence, nos mariages, notre vie quotidienne et notre mort.

Three Plays - Our Town, The Matchmaker, and The Skin of Our Teeth

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