{"product_id":"9780573618055","title":"World Of Carl Sandburg, The","description":"Adapted by Norman Corwin\u003cp\u003eDramatic Comedy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharacters: 2 male, 1 female\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSimple Set\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarl Sandburg's works, adapted by Norman Corwin, as first performed by Bette Davis and Lief Erickson, and a host of others in New York and on tour. The best of the Pulitzer Prize-winner's verse, including some previously unpublished; and prose, including the biography of Lincoln; and interspersed with optional American folk songs from his songbag. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Playful and serious, childlike and wise, commonplace and fresh, homespun and poetic, distinctively American and daringly boundless...Dry in its wit, like a prairie philosopher, and passionate in its convictions like one of the Lord's prophets.\" -\u003cem\u003e The New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The snappers that mark the endings of so many Sandburg aphorisms are unfailingly comic, impudently infected. 'Some day they'll give a war and nobody'll come' pops out at you with innocence and ease, and becomes devastating thereby. The 'goofyisms' that give the evening a gay and idiot shrug in its final few moments are read with the soft shoe elan of an unretired vaudevillian.\"-\u003cem\u003eThe New York Herald Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Samuel French, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47026860261616,"sku":"9780573618055","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780573618055_p0.jpg?v=1763720126","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780573618055","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}