{"product_id":"9781598531466","title":"Thornton Wilder: The Eighth Day, Theophilus North, AutobiographicalWritings","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The best thing he ever wrote,\" observed Edmund Wilson of Thornton Wilder's National Book Award winner \u003ci\u003eThe Eighth Day\u003c\/i\u003e (1967), an enthralling novel that shows Wilder revisiting the small-town America of \u003ci\u003eOur Town\u003c\/i\u003e to fashion a philosophical whodunit. A wrongful conviction for murder and a daring rescue lead to a meditation on justice, destiny, and \"the impassioned will,\" for which \"nothing is impossible.\" Wilder's last novel, the semi-autobiographical \u003ci\u003eTheophilus North\u003c\/i\u003e (1973), is an affectionate portrait of Newport, Rhode Island, in the 1920s and a playful, valedictory glance at Wilder's young manhood. Completing this volume are three never-before- published reminiscences taken from an unfinished autobiography in which Wilder engagingly recalls his childhood stay at a boarding school in China, his time as an undergraduate at Yale, and the uneasy experience of visiting Salzburg not long before Austria was annexed by the Nazis.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of America, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47060915028208,"sku":"9781598531466","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781598531466_p0.jpg?v=1763811534","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781598531466","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}