Thornton Wilder: The Eighth Day, Theophilus North, Autobiographical Writings (Loa #224)

by Thornton Wilder

Book Overview

"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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1598531468
• ISBN13: 9781598531466
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Library of America
• Length: 864 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 4.9" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher