An edition of Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker [The Merchant of Yonkers] (1955)

Three Plays

Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Matchmaker (Perennial Classics)

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An edition of Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker [The Merchant of Yonkers] (1955)

Three Plays

Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Matchmaker (Perennial Classics)

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From celebrated Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Thornton Wilder, three of the greatest plays in American literature together in one volume. This omnibus edition brings together Wilder's three best-known plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Matchmaker [The Merchant of Yonkers]. In includes a preface by the author, as well as a foreword by playwright John Guare.

Our Town, Wilder's timeless Pulitzer Prize-winning look at love, death, and destiny, opened on Broadway in 1938 and continues to be celebrated and performed around the world.

The Skin of our Teeth, Wilder's 1942 romp about human follies and human endurance starring the Antrobus family of Excelsior, New Jersey, earned Wilder his third Pulitzer Prize.

The Matchmaker [The Merchant of Yonkers], Wilder's brilliant 1954 farce about money and love starring that irrepressible busybody Dolly Gallagher Levi. This play inspired the Broadway musical Hello, Dolly!

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Thornton Wilder, History, Historical, American, 3, Three, Plays, Drama, Fiction, Classic, Literature, American drama (dramatic works by one author), American Historical drama, American drama, Jews, Biography, Jewish scholars

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Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Matchmaker (Perennial Classics)
January 2, 2007, Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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Three plays
2006, Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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Cover of: Three Plays (Perennial Classics)
Three Plays (Perennial Classics)
October 1, 1998, Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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Three plays
1961, Bantam
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Three plays: Our town, The skin of our teeth, The matchmaker
1957, Avon Books, Perennial Library, Perennial Classics
in /languages/eng

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