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Sherwood’s play The Petrified Forest has a similar structure and similar themes to Idiot’s Delight: a mismatched assemblage of travelers is trapped together in a bus station in the West by a desperate gunman, whose violence threatens to destroy the social ideals of an intellectual paci- fist. The play was first published in 1935 and is currently available from Dramatist’s Play Service, published in 1998.
Those interested in Sherwood’s life will want to read James R. Gaines’s Wit’s End: Days and Nights of the Algonquin Round Table, about the legendary...
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