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1930. American writer and playwright, he is best known for the Pulitzer Prize awarded his play Our Town in 1938. His second novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928. The first part of this novel is based upon the Andria, a comedy of Terence who in turn based his work upon two Greek plays, now lost to us, by Menander. The Woman of Andros reflected Wilder's understanding of the classics. In the character of Chrysis the author created his archetype of of the virtue of hope. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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Play by Terence, produced in 166 BC as Andria. It has also been translated as The Andrian Girl. Terence adapted it from the Greek play Andria by Menander and added material from Menander's Perinthia (The Perinthian Girl). The relationship of a father, Simo, and his son, Pamphilus, is central to The Woman of Andros, in which Simo engages Pamphilus in an arranged marriage although Pamphilus wants to marry his sweetheart from Andros, the mother of his child. Simo's schemes and self-delusion set up the play's comic situations. Dialogues, rather than the conventional monologues used by other playwrights of the time, enhance the play's dramatic movement. Also unusual in a Roman comedy is the fact that Terence's characters are not comic caricatures but fully realized people. Terence's The Woman of Andros was the basis of several later works, including the play The Conscious Lovers by Sir Richard Steele (1723) and the novel The Woman of Andros by Thornton Wilder (1930). -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature
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- PublisherAvon Books
- Publication date1975
- ISBN 10 0380003082
- ISBN 13 9780380003082
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages112
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Bard Books/Published by Avon, New York. 1975. Trade Paperback. Stated First Bard Printing April 1975. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; slight edge and tip bumps; light surface rubbing. No DJ. Pictorial wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split. 112 pp 12mo. This is one of Wilder's most important early works. Based on the theme of the Andria this is the story of Chrysis who on the island of Brynos surrounded herself with young men. One of them, Pamphilus, falls in love with her sister, Glycerium, and their love unfolds gracefully, in a novel that is beautiful, harmonious, and full of the profundity inherent in the simplest movement of life. A clean very presentable copy. Seller Inventory # 005830
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Book Description Pbk. Condition: Fine. First Thus. " Based on the theme of the Andria - an ancent comedy by Terence- this is he story of Chrysis who on the island of Brynos surrounded herself with young men. One of them, Pamphilus, falls in love with her sister, Glycerium, and their love unfolds gracefully, in a novel that is beautiful, harmonious, and full of the profundity inherent in the simplest movement of life" 112p. Book. Seller Inventory # 041379
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