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Three Plays

Thornton Wilder

1957225 pagesabout 3–5 hours
1957
first published
  • 1957Avon Books · 225 pages · ENGISBN 9780380005277
  • 1961Bantam · 225 pages · ENG
  • 1985Perennial Library · 401 pages · ENGISBN 9780060912932
  • 1970Bantam Books, a National General Company · 225 pages · ENG
  • 2007Harper Perennial Modern Classics · 496 pages · ENGISBN 9780060512644
  • 2000Bantam BooksISBN 9789991547268
  • 1998Harper Perennial Modern Classics · 448 pages · ENGISBN 9780060929855
  • 1957HarperCollins Publishers · ENGISBN 9780060146504

From celebrated Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Thornton Wilder, three of the greatest plays in American literature together in one volume. This omnibus edition brings together Wilder's three best-known plays: ***Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Matchmaker [The Merchant of Yonkers].*** In includes a ***preface by the author, as well as a foreword by playwright John Guare.*** ***Our Town,*** Wilder's timeless Pulitzer Prize-winning look at love, death, and destiny, opened on Broadway in 1938 and continues to be celebrated and performed around the world. ***The Skin of our Teeth,*** Wilder's 1942 romp about human follies and human endurance starring the Antrobus family of Excelsior, New Jersey, earned Wilder his third Pulitzer Prize. ***The Matchmaker [The Merchant of Yonkers],*** Wilder's brilliant 1954 farce about money and love starring that irrepressible busybody Dolly Gallagher Levi. This play inspired the Broadway musical Hello, Dolly!

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