Word: wilderness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Novel, Thornton Niven Wilder, for his Bridge of San Luis Rey (TIME...
Thornton Niven Wilder, an instructor at Lawrenceville School & author of The Bridge of San Luis Rey, a best-selling book about people in Peru, and a book of which first edition copies have sold at $50, was interviewed by a young reporter. He said: ". . . Collecting first editions is not a good habit to get into. It is a minor indication of an age that is losing the essential approach to books. ... I have never set foot in Peru...
Whatever may have been the reasons for his writing about twins in these plays and others, it was a fortunate compulsion. Twins, are among the most engrossing of human phenomena. Twins are principal characters in The Bridge of San Luis Rey, brilliant best-selling novel by Thornton Wilder, himself one of twins. Almost every person includes in his acquaintance a pair of twins and contemplates their doings with delight and astonishment. For this reason, a wide interest attaches itself to a research begun last week by the University of California. Learned faculty members planned to assemble 500 pairs of twins...
News comes to us from a former CRIMSON president now studying at the University of London, that neither of the two books that head the list of English best-sellers is written by an Englishman. One of course, is Thornton Wilder's "Bridge of San Luis Rey." The Lawrenceville teacher seems to have won quite a following abroad with the restrained writing of his philosophical novel. "The Bridge", however, is not the first in the eyes of Englishmen. That honor goes to "The Ugly Duchess", Feuchtwanger's historical romance which is among the first five on this side...
...Cabala--Wilder...