About this title: Meet one of Wilder's most memorable characters--his famous take on Don Quixote come to Main Street in the Great Depression--George Marvin Brush, traveling textbook salesman.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & brothers, New York
Date Published: 1935
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. vi p., 1 l., 304 p., 1 l. 21 cm. At head of title: Thornton Wilder. "First edition. " read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & brothers, New York: London
Date Published: 1935
Description: Fair. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Typical markings and card pocket. Pages are tanned and tight, text clean. Front endpages soiled and stained with marginal stains to several additional pages and one repaired tear. Boards have indents and edgewear with... Hardcover. vi p., 1 l., 304 p., 1 l. 21 cm. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Avon Books, New York
Date Published: 1945
Description: George A. Corrado. Fair- 16mo-over 5¾"-6¾" tall. 193pp. 1st prtg. Covs very rubbed, creased, soiled; edges & corners worn, creased. Sp creased; edges & ends quite worn....It concerns the adventures of a traveling salesman, young, healthy, a Baptist college graduate, and a religious convert. The practice of his religious principles gets him into a number of difficult and ridiculous situations including beatings, arrests, and a marriage with a waitress whom he had seduced some years previously. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & brothers, New York: London
Date Published: 1935
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. library markings, badly stained flyleaves, jacket well-worn and taped; text and binding firm. vi p., 1 l., 304 p., 1 l. 21 cm. At head of title: Thornton Wilder. "First edition. " read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Brothers
Date Published: 1935
Description: Good. No DJ. First edition. Text contains some underlining/marking.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Free Delivery Confirmation! Ships same or next business day! read more
Edition: Eighteenth Edition
Publisher: Harper & Brothers Publishers, NY and London
Date Published: 1935
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Novel by the great, Thornton Wilder. Tells the story of George Brush's adventures through Oklahoma, Texas, Camp Morgan, Kansas City, and Missouri. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780060088897ISBN:0060088893
Description: Good. Used item may show library stamps, stickers and marks. Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: ANCHOR BOOKS
Description: Fair. B000UDYCE2 Acceptable mass market paperback wiith edge and corner wear. spine creases, solid reading copy. A few of letters on cover blacked in with pen. read more
Description: With an Introduction by John Henry Raleigh. NY: Doubleday / Anchor, (1960). Issued as Anchor Book A209. Softcover. Near very good, spine cocked a little, some cover fading cover wear. Numbers on the first page. Typography by Edward Gorey. read more
Edition: Hardcover Stated First
Binding: Fair--Some Separation
Publisher: Harper & Brothers, New York
Date Published: 1935
Description: Fair to Good. No Jacket. Hardcover Fiction Fiction *: A stated first edition hardcover. The book's a bit musty and the binding is beginning to give way between the front cover and the front flyleaf. read more
"Written & set during the Great Depression, this novel features a young (22), idealistic traveling textbook salesman, who was converted to Christianity while at a Baptist college in North Dakota. He works hard to live his faith & his ideals that are not typical of evangelicals, including pacifism & something he calls "voluntary poverty"; he has been strongly influenced by Ghandi's example. His outspokenness & innocence repeatedly land him in trouble & earn the resentment of many of the people he tries to influence, though he doesn't display the typical evangelical arrogance. In fact, it's even hard to tell whether the author wants us to admire him or laugh at him--or both. With its spare prose & linear development, it's a quick read, but I don't know what to make of it."
"Wilder, Thornton. HEAVEN'S MY DESTINIATION. (1935). ****. This is a different kind of novel for Wilder. Set in Depression America, it chronicles the travels of it's traveling salesman hero. On meeting anyone, our hero always provides the necessary information about himself. For example, when he visits a summer camp for young students, one of the women there approaches him:
"What's your name?" she asked. "George arvin Brush. I was born in Michigan. I'm a traveling salesman in school books. I came to this camp to see a man on business. This evening I asked if I could help in the kitchen, because I like to be where students are and where people are working. I've had to do that kind of work all my life."
George is a delusional idealist. He tries to live his life according to his interpretation of what is taught in the Bible, with some additional rules passed down by Ghandi. This would be all well and good, but he has a problem: He expounds on his views to everyone he meets. George doesn't smoke or drink or chase women. Anyone who does is a fallen person in his eyes. He doesn't believe in the acquisition of money for its own sake, and gives away any that he might have over and above his needs. He doesn't believe in banks; he believes that they foster fear in the people who use them to store up their money "for a rainy day." He is a Pacifist, though he isn't afraid to defend himself. He has this strange belief that women should be pure and aspire only to becoming good wives and raising families. Spouting off all of his ideas continually gets George in trouble. He is arrested for withdrawing his money from the local bank, but refusing to take the interest. When this word gets around, it starts a run on the bank that ultimately puts it out of business. He is a stranger in a strange land. We follow these picaresque adventures with a slight grin, but stop to think more closely about the basic tenets of society as George questions them. Is there any hope for George? Maybe. Maybe not. Recommended."
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