Thornton Wilder Society

Works

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Click on any underlined title below for an article with plot summary, critical analysis, and selected bibliography, or other information about the work.

Novels
1926The Cabala
1927The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1930The Woman of Andros
1935Heaven’s My Destination
1948The Ides of March
1967The Eighth Day
1973Theophilus North
Full-length Plays
1938Our Town
A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen: An Acting Version by Thornton Wilder
1942The Skin of Our Teeth
1955The Matchmaker: revised from the Merchant of Yonkers
The Alcestiad
Short Plays
1928The Angel That Troubled the Waters and other Plays
1931The Long Christmas Dinner and Other Plays in One Act
— The Long Christmas Dinner
— Queens of France
— Pullman Car Hiawatha
— Love and How to Cure It
— Such Things Only Happen in Books
— The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden
1962Plays for Bleeker Street
— Someone from Assisi
— Infancy
— Childhood
Screenwriting
1942Shadow of a Doubt
Essays
1979American Characteristics and Other Essays
Letters
1996The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder
2001A Tour of the Darkling Plain: The Finnegans Wake Letters of Thornton Wilder and Adaline Glasheen
2008The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder
Collections
1997The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder Volume I
1998The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder Volume II
2007Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays and Writings on Theater
2009Thornton Wilder: The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels 1926-1948
2012Thornton Wilder: The Eigth Day, Theophilus North, Autobiographical Writings