- Death, Scripts, Drama, Young women
Thornton Wilder contemplates ordinary life events (birth, family life, marriage, and death), mostly through one character, a young woman, Emily Webb, who leads an unexamined life until she encounters death.
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About the book
- Author
- Thornton Wilder
- First published
- 1938
- Pages
- 128
- Publisher
- Coward McCann, inc., Avon Books, Coward-McCann, in cooperation with S. French
- Editions
- 37
- Language
- wel, English
- ISBN
- 9781856441667
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Thornton Niven Wilder was an American playwright and novelist. He received three Pulitzer Prizes, one for his novel *The Bridge of San Luis Rey* and two for his plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and a National Book Award for his novel *The Eighth Day*. ([Source][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornton_Wilder
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