![]() Book fine, dust jacket with four corner slightly clipped, as often ($2.00 price present) with a bit of fading and rubbing to spine. Octavo, original cloth, original dust jacket. "Considered enormously innovative for its lack of props and scenery and revered for its sentimental but at bottom realistic depictions of middle-class America, Our Town soon became a staple of American theatre" ( Britannica). The play concerns their courtship and marriage and Emily’s death in childbirth. The main characters are George Gibbs, a doctor’s son, and Emily Webb, daughter of a newspaper editor. Through flashbacks, dialogue, and direct monologues the other characters reveal themselves to the audience. The play is set in Grover’s Corners, N.H., and features a narrator, the Stage Manager, who sits at the side of the unadorned stage and explains the action. Books by Thornton Wilder (Author of Our Town) Books by Thornton Wilder Thornton Wilder Average rating 3. Our Town "is considered a classic portrayal of small-town American life. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1938. Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. “The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude."įIRST EDITION of a classic of American drama. ![]()
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