OTHER BOOKS BY THORNTON WILDER AVAILABLE FROM TCG
The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder, Volume I
INCLUDES:
The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden
The Long Christmas Dinner
Love and How to Cure It
Pullman Car Hiawatha
Queens of France
Such Things Only Happen in Books
“The Seven Deadly Sins”:
The Drunken Sisters
Bernice
The Wreck on the Five-Twenty-Five
A Ringing of Doorbells
In Shakespeare and the Bible
Someone from Assisi
Cement Hands
“The Seven Ages of Man”:
Infancy
Childhood
Youth
The Rivers Under the Earth
The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder, Volume II
INCLUDES:
The Alcestiad
And the Sea Shall Give Up Its Dead
The Angel on the Ship
The Angel That Troubled the Waters
Brother Fire
Centaurs
Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
The Drunken Sisters
Scenes from The Emporium
Fanny Otcott
The Flight into Egypt
Hast Thou Considered My Servant Job?
Leviathan
The Marriage We Deplore
The Message and Jehanne
Mozart and the Gray Steward
Nascuntur Poetae . . .
Now the Servant’s Name Was Malchus
The Penny That Beauty Spent
Prosperpina and the Devil
The Unerring Instinct
A Doll’s House is copyright © 1969 by The Wilder Family LLC
The preface and appendix are copyright © 2016 by A. Tappan Wilder
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Images: Wilder Family Collection, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Library (p. 112); Cincinnati Enquirer, October 17, 1937 (p. 117); Collection of Newspaper Clippings of Dramatic Criticism (*ZAN-*T282) 1937/38, Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (p. 119); The Houghton Library, Harvard University, permission by The Wilder Family LLC (p.120).
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ISBN 978-1-55936-850-6 (ebook)
Book design and composition by Lisa Govan
Cover design by Carol Devine Carson
Cover image by jvphoto / Alamy Photo
First Edition, May 2016
Contents
Preface
By A. Tappan Wilder
A DOLL’S HOUSE
APPENDIX
Afterword
By A. Tappan Wilder
Note on Sources
Press Quotes for A Doll’s House, 1937
