About this title: An illustrated hardcover edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, first produced in 1938, follows the changes that gradually occur in the lives of two early-twentieth-century New Hampshire families and their neighbors. 15,000 first printing.
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780060807795ISBN:0060807792
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. minimal wear & tear on cover, owner's name marked out on 1st page, some notes written in book. Trade paperback (US). Audience: General/trade. read more
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"I enjoyed this trip down Memory Lane; my high school drama club did a production of this play, and it's amazing how much I was able to visualize that while reading this again so many years later. Who says you can't go home again?! I will admit, though, that my 4* rating includes those memories. Even without the memories, this was an easier play to read than most Shakespeare plays - I could relate to the setting (I'm a small-town girl), and to the language more here than in a Shakespearean setting. But playwrights meant them to be seen and not just read, and I do enjoy a good production of a play."
"Favorite Lines: I guess we're all hunting like everybody else for a way the diligent and sensible can rise to the top and the lazy and quarrelsome can sink to the bottom. Meanwhile, we do all we can to help those that can't help themselves and those that can we leave alone.
Everybody has a right to their own troubles.
You know how it is: you're 21 or 22 and you make some decisions; then whissh! you're seventy: you've been a lawyer for fifty years, and that white-haired lady at your side has eaten over fifty thousand meals with you.
Whenever you come near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense . . ."
"I slipped this play into the middle of the books I have on my currently reading/to read lists, since I am thinking about auditioning for a production coming up next month. It is just as meaningful and touching as it was when I worked tech on it 12 (or so) years ago and performed in it 6 years ago. The foreword in this version summed it up very nicely as to why it might mean something more to readers as they age - as you live your life, you don't really realize how life can be just so fleeting, and this play shows you the small things in life that you just don't know to appreciate when they are happening."
"It is perhaps down to the fact that I was forced to study this play, along with my rather bored and disgruntled GCSE English class, as a 15 year old that I have a dislike for it. I found it quite dry and particularly unexciting as a piece of literature and having to make dozens of seemingly "pointless" characters notes time and time again did not help this.
However I can appreciate the beauty the of the play and it's story. It is simple, both to read and follow structurally; divided into 3 acts each symbolizing rather important stages in life. How the play is staged, little props or scenery, alludes to the fact that this town, "Our Town", could be in fact any town anywhere in the world. The people with their simple daily routines, their worries, their experiences, could be our own neighbours. It is my belief that Wilder intended to allow us to appreciate the simplicity of life in smaller communities such as that of the play. Despite the fact that I did not particularly enjoy the play, I have no doubt that I will read it again in later years and come to appreciate it and realise why it has earned the title of "classic"."
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