The long Christmas Dinner & Other Plays in One Act

Thornton Wilder

Verlag: Coward-McCann; Yale University Press, 1931

Beschreibung

First edition, 1st Printing stated; November, 1931. 122 pp. rust-colored cloth binding; sunned spine. Lacking the dustjacket. Past owner's name on the ffep., as well as, a tiny tear on lower edge. It was first performed jointly by the Yale Dramatic Association and the Vassar Philaletheis Society. A one-act play whose action spans 90 years in the home of one family, taking place mainly in the dining room, during Christmas dinners. In 1963, an operatic adaptation, with music by Paul Hindemith, to text by Wilder, entitled "The Long Christmas Dinner", was premiered at the Juilliard School of Music. The other plays (6) "Queens of France", "Pullman Car Hiawatha", "Love and How to Cure It", "Such Things Only Happen in Books", and "The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 22438

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The long Christmas Dinner & Other Plays in ...

Verlag: Coward-McCann; Yale University Press

Erscheinungsdatum: 1931

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

Auflage: 1st Edition