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  • Our Town

    A Play in Three Acts

    by Thornton Wilder ...
    Series series Perennial Classics
    "[Our Town] leaves us with a sense of blessing, and the unspoken but palpable command to achieve gratitude in what remains of our days on earth." — The New YorkerThornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the mythical village of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire—an allegorical representation of all life—is a beloved American classic play. It is the simple story of a love affair that ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Our Town and the Cosmic One-Acts

    The Long Christmas Dinner, The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden, and Pullman Car Hiawatha

    by Thornton Wilder ...
    Series series Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions
    A special edition of Thornton Wilder’s beloved masterpiece Our Town, together with three astonishing one-act plays that reach across space and time, redefining what theater can be.An American classic for nearly a century, Our Town, set in the mythical village of Grover’s Corners, is the story of a love affair that asks timeless questions about love, life, and death. It explores the relationship ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Ides of March

    A Novel

    by Thornton Wilder ...
    The classic Thornton Wilder novelthat recreates the dazzling ancient Roman empire of JuliusCaesar—now with a new introduction by Jeremy McCarter,****author ofYoung Radicalsand co-author (with Lin-Manuel Miranda) of the #1 New York Times bestseller Hamilton: The Revolution.First published in 1948, The Ides of March is a brilliant epistolary novel of the Rome of Ju... ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey

    by Thornton Wilder ...
    An ancient bridge collapses over a gorge in Peru, hurling five people into the abyss. It seems a meaningless human tragedy. But one witness, a Franciscan monk, believes the deaths might not be as random as they appear. Convinced that the disaster is a punishment sent from Heaven, the monk sets out to discover all he can about the travellers. The five strangers were connected in some way, he thinks ... Read more

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  • Theophilus North

    A Novel

    by Thornton Wilder ...
    “An extremely entertaining array of American life in a bygone era.” — New YorkerThe last of Thornton Wilder’s works published during his lifetime, Theophilus North is part autobiographical and part the imagined adventures of Wilder’s twin brother who died at birth. This edition features an updated afterword from Wilder’s nephew, Tappan Wilder, with illuminating material about the novelist, story ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey

    A Novel

    by Thornton Wilder, Tappan Wilder ...
    Series series Perennial Classics
    The authorized, original edition of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic with a foreword by acclaimed author Russell Banks and an afterword by Wilder's nephew, Tappan Wilder, with illuminating documentary material about the novel and its rich literary history."As close to perfect a moral fable as we are ever likely to get in American literature." —Russell Banks"There are books that ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Cabala

    by Thornton Wilder ...
    A young American in Rome encounters a mysterious cohort of aristocrats in the Pulitzer Prize–winning author's debut novel.In love with all things classical, the narrator of Thornton Wilder's The Cabala is entranced by the timeless city of Rome. With the Great War finally over, he's spending a year among Rome's salons and cafes. But he only comes to understand the grand and crumbling metropolis ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

    by Thornton Wilder ...
    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEListed Among Time Magazine's 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005In eighteenth-century Peru, the collapse of a fabled bridge sets in motion a profound exploration of fate, love, and the interconnectedness of human lives. The Bridge of San Luis Rey centers around Brother Juniper, a devout Franciscan monk who witnesses the accident and becomes obsessed with ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Cabala and The Woman of Andros

    Two Novels

    by Thornton Wilder ...
    “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, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Matchmaker

    A Farce in Four Acts

    by Thornton Wilder ...
    “Loud, slap dash and uproarious...extraordinarily original and funny."—New York TimesNow, for the first time in a standalone edition, Thornton Wilder's brilliant, hilarious play which was adapted into the hit Broadway musical Hello, Dolly with an afterword by Wilder's nephew, Tappan Wilder.Horace Vandergelder, a wealthy old merchant residing in Yonkers has decided it’s time to take a wife and ... Read more

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  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey

    by Thornton Wilder, GP Editors ...
    In eighteenth-century Peru, a historic bridge connecting the cities of Cuzco and Lima collapsed, plunging five people to their deaths. A Franciscan monk, Brother Juniper, witnesses the tragedy and embarks on a spiritual quest to reconcile free will versus fate and the existence of God in the victims’ lives: “Why did this happen to those five?” This thought-provoking, Pulitzer Prizewinning second ... Read more

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  • The Eighth Day

    A Novel

    by Thornton Wilder ...
    “[Wilder's] finest and most beautiful novel. . . . Spanning two continents and several generations, it begins as a murder mystery and goes on to tell a story, at once dramatic and philosophical, about the range of human courage, aspirations, steadfastness, weakness, defeat and victory.” — New York PostThis beautiful edition of Thornton Wilder’s renowned National Book Award–winning novel features a ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook