Thornton Wilder (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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Thornton Wilder is as well known for his plays as for his fiction. Our Town (1938), The Merchant of Yonkers (1938, revised as The Matchmaker, 1954), and The Skin of Our Teeth (1942) are some of his best known. Collections of his short plays were published in The Angel That Troubled the Waters and Other Plays (1928) and The Long Christmas Dinner and Other Plays in One Act (1931). A Life in the Sun, commonly known as The Alcestiad, was published in 1955, and a collection of his essays, American...

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