Thornton Wilder (Critical Survey of Drama)

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Thornton Wilder came to national prominence in 1927 with what has remained his best-known novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, which won for him the first of his three Pulitzer Prizes. The year before, his first published fiction, The Cabala (1926), had appeared, and in 1930 came his third novel, The Woman of Andros. These works were followed in 1934 by Heaven’s My Destination—his first fictional work about the American experience—and, at lengthy intervals, by three additional novels. The Ides of March, the story of...

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