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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. WITTY: ERUDITE: INNOVATIVE: WISE: WONDERFUL: NEW: First Edition hardcover(1990) First Printing, NEW LOA jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $35.00 pub. price at bottom-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW rayon-weave blue Brillianta fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW Smyth-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & blue-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps w/ blue silk ribbon page-marker bound-in from top, IMPECCABLE distinctive white-on-blue LOA-patterned card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in Linotron Galliard on superb unblemished acid-free archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.36", 0.65 kg, 731 pp. * CONTENTS: The Cabala (1), The Bridge of San Luis Rey (111), The Woman of Andros (193), Heaven's My Destination (249), The Ides of March (409), Early Stories (607), Essays on Fiction (645); Chronology (697), Note on the Texts (711), Notes (714) * ABOUT THE BOOK: Thornton Wilder was the rare writer whose achievements as a playwright were matched by equal abilities as a novelist. As companion to its volume of Wilder's collected plays, The LOA edition of his early novels & stories brings together 5 novels that highlight his wit, erudition, innovative formal structures, & philosophical wisdom. Drawing on the post-collegiate year he spent in Rome, Wilder fashioned in "The Cabala" a tale of youthful enchantment w/ the Eternal City in the form of a fictitious memoir of an American student & the enigmatic coterie of noble Romans who draw him into their midst. He followed this debut novel 2 years later w/ "The Bridge of San Luis Rey", which catapulted him to literary prominence & earned him the first of his 3 Pulitzer prizes. "The Bridge", Wilder later wrote, "asked the question whether the intention that lies behind love was sufficient to justify the desperation of living." Set in 18th-century Peru, the book is a kind of theological detective story concerning a friar's investigations into the lives of 5 individuals before they were killed in a bridge collapse. An elegantly told parable, w/ credible historical ambience & psychologically rounded characters, "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" is primarily a probing inquiry into the nature of destiny & divine intention: Why did God allow these particular people to die? "The Woman of Andros", based on the Andria of Roman writer Terence, is a consideration of the ancient world filtered through the sensibility of a meditative courtesan; "Heaven's My Destination", a departure from Wilder's historical themes, is a picaresque romp through Depression-era America; & "The Ides of March" takes up the story of Julius Caesar's assassination by imagining the exchange of letters among such prominent ancient figures as Catullus, Cleopatra, Cicero, & Caesar himself, "groping in the open seas of his unlimited power for the first principles which should guide him." The volume concludes w/ a selection of early short stories, among them "Précautions Inutiles", published here for the first time, & a selection of essays that offers Wilder's insights into the works of Stein & Joyce, as well as a lecture on letter writers that bears on both "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" & "The Ides of March". * ABOUT THE EDITOR: J. D. MCCLATCHY (1945?2018) was the author of many books of poetry & essays, including "Plundered Hearts: New & Selected Poems" (2014), & the editor of 9 LOA publications. He wrote the libretto for Ned Rorem's operatic version of "Our Town", taught at Yale University, & served as editor of The Yale Review. * THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic). Seller Inventory # 009361
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