.[Read] .[PDF] Book Our Town: A Play in Three Acts

Aqu Blog September 07, 2023

Our Town: A Play in Three Acts

by Thornton Wilder

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?Wilder?s unfashionable insistence on embracing wonders as well as woe is both gallant and exhilarating. . . . [Our Town] leaves us with a sense of blessing, and the unspoken but palpable command to achieve gratitude in what remains of our days on earth.??New Yorker?A beautiful new edition of Thornton Wilder's most renowned play, the Pulitzer Prize-winning American classic,?Our Town.This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the mythical village of Grover?s Corners, New Hampshire?an allegorical representation of all life?has become an American classic.?It is?the?simple story of a love affair that?asks timeless questions about the meaning of love, life and death.Our Town?explores the relationship between two young Grover?s Corners neighbors, George Gibbs and Emily Webb, whose childhood friendship blossoms into romance, and then culminates in marriage. When Emily loses her life in childbirth, the circle of life portrayed in each of the three acts?childhood, adulthood, and death?is