Our Town

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This beautiful hardcover edition features an eyeopening Afterword written by Tappan Wilder, Thornton Wilder’s nephew, that includes Wilder’s unpublished notes and other illuminating photographs and documentary material.Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the small village of Grover’s Corners, an allegorical representation of all life, has become an American classic. It is Thornton Wilder’s most renowned and most frequently performed play.

Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize–winning drama of life in the town of Grover ‘s Corners, an allegorical representation of all life, has become a classic. It is Thornton Wilder’s most renowned and most frequently performed play.

It is now reissued in this handsome hardcover edition, featuring a new Foreword by Donald Margulies, who writes, “You are holding in your hands a great American play. Possibly the great American play.” In addition, Tappan Wilder has written an eye-opening new Afterword, which includes Thornton Wilder’s unpublished notes and other illuminating photographs and documentary material.

“Taking as his material three periods in the history of a placid New Hampshire town, Mr. Wilder has transmuted the simple events of human life into universal reverie. He has given familiar facts a deeply moving, philosophical perspective….Our Town is one of the finest achievements of the current stage.” “Its astringent distillation of life and death in the fictional early-20th-century town of Grover’s Corners, N.H., is desperately needed…so Americans can remember who we are. . . . The true American faith endures in “Our Town.” “Wilder’s unfashionable insistence on embracing wonders as well as woe is both gallant and exhilarating. . . .[Our Town] leaves us with a sense of blessing, and the unspoken but palpable command to achieve gratitude in what remains of our days on earth”

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