by Thornton Wilder · Carroll & Graf Pub · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780881843828
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«Mr. North» is the historical fiction novel by Thornton Wilder, published by Carroll & Graf Pub in paperback (372 pages, in English).
Theophilus North, a twenty-nine-year-old teacher, arrives in Newport, Rhode Island, in the summer of 1926. Among the local high society, he tries nine different jobs while observing the contradictions of an elegant, closed world. His encounters with local characters allow him to redefine his own path in life.
Work originally published in 1973 as Theophilus North: A Novel. This 1988 edition, in English, is linked to the film adaptation.
For readers of classic American fiction and historical fiction set in the 1920s.
Thornton Niven Wilder was an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes, for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and a U.S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day.
