Thornton Wilder
Born: 04-16-1897
Thornton Wilder was an acclaimed American playwright and novelist, born in 1897. He is best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning plays "Our Town" and "The Skin of Our Teeth," as well as the novel "The Bridge of San Luis Rey." Wilder's work often explores themes of human connection and the passage of time. His innovative storytelling and deep philosophical insights have left a lasting impact on American literature and theater.
Book summaries for books written by Thornton Wilder
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But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten.
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
But in the end it is always the same: the doen years of the peacemaker, the gentle ones that are there to hurt us.
Even he had hardly dared to hope of appearing before his friend with the news that he had loved him long.
He would be on the rim of a world that was strange and new to him; there would be pitfalls and dragons.
Happiness is not the easy things out after all; it is by no means only the prestige of success.
But it is lent to us, and we must be thankful for small favors at best.
Why weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
She had no friends, and yet she seemed to possess a kind of aggressive cheerfulness.
The love we have been given we will divide.
He recalled with other eyes his failure to become what he wanted to be.
He had been careful never to let anything remain the same, for fear of his life growing stagnant.