Enduring, Unsurpassed American Masterpiece

Our Town

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Thornton Wilder’s Our Town follows the courtship and marriage of George and Emily, and in following the two, reveals the hidden mystery behind the everyday. Wilder’s portrait of life, love and death is set in Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, a fictional New England town at the start of the 20th century. With a penetrating wisdom about living in community, this play is an enduring American treasure and one of the greatest plays of world theatre. Recommended for general audiences.

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Wilder's fiction endures not just because his spooky eyes let him see so much, but because he was too honest to depict any more than that. By refusing to give easy answers to the hard questions he pondered, he makes us a little more attuned to them ourselves. After you read these books, people seem a little more mysterious, more infused with some ineffable spirit beyond flesh and blood. In their modest way, Wilder's novels do what he believed Shakespeare had done when he created his great heroines: to alter "the spiritual weather of the world."
From "Something Wilder” Book Review published in Newsweek.

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