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Thornton Wilder: The Eighth Day, Theophilus North, AutobiographicalWritings

By Thornton Wilder, J. D. McClatchy (Editor)
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By Thornton Wilder, J. D. McClatchy (Editor)
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"The best thing he ever wrote," observed Edmund Wilson of Thornton Wilder's National Book Award winner The Eighth Day (1967), an enthralling novel that shows Wilder revisiting the small-town America of Our Town to fashion a philosophical whodunit. A wrongful conviction for murder and a daring rescue lead to a meditation on justice, destiny, and "the impassioned will," for which "nothing is impossible." Wilder's last novel, the semi-autobiographical Theophilus North (1973), is an affectionat...

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