The eighth day ; : Theophilus North ; Autobiographical writings

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The work The eighth day ; : Theophilus North ; Autobiographical writings represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The eighth day ; : Theophilus North ; Autobiographical writings

Title remainder

Theophilus North ; Autobiographical writings

Statement of responsibility

Thornton Wilder ; J.D. McClatchy, editor

Title variation

Thornton Wilder, The eighth day, Theophilus North, Autobiographical writings

Creator

• trueWilder, Thornton, 1897-1975

Contributor

• McClatchy, J. D., 1945-

Subject

• Amerikanisches Englisch
• Roman
• Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975
• Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975
• Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975

Language

eng

Summary

The Eighth Day (1967), an enthralling novel in which Wilder revisits the small-town America of Our Town to stage a philosophical who-dunit; a wrongful conviction for murder and a daring rescue frame a meditation on the mysteriousness of justice, fate, and "the impassioned will," for which "nothing is impossible." Wilder's final novel, the semi-autobiographical Theophilus North (1973), is an affectionate portrait of Newport, Rhode Island, in the 1920s and a playful, valedictory glance at Wilder's young manhood. As a special feature, this third and final volume of The Library of America edition of Wilder's collected works includes three never-before-published chapters from Wilder's unfinished autobiography in which he engagingly recalls his boarding school experience in China, his college days at Yale, and an uneasy visit to Salzburg just before the Nazi Anschluss

Member of

• Library of America, 224
• Works., Selections

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

812/.52

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

The Library of America

Series volume

222 [i.e. 224]