The Journals of Thornton Wilder, 1939-1961

by Thornton Wilder

Book Overview

The Journals of Thornton Wilder, 1939-1961 This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300033753
• ISBN13: 9780300033755
• Release Date: September 1985
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

fascinating reflections on other authors, writing, and his memoirs

Topics include: On the motion Picture The Grapes of Wrath, on religion and psychoanalysis, toward a definition of the novel, difficulties with my play, Faulkner, Henry James, Kierkegaard, Norton Lectures, Stendhal, quite a lot of thought about Poe, Melville, Dr. Schweitzer, Woollcott, Genet, science fiction, Whitman and the breakdown of love, zen, the Alcestiad, the dream-process in literature. 354 pages, thoroughly indexed.