Our Town

Our Town

1938 • 181 pages

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Average rating3.9

15

Thornton Wilder contemplates ordinary life events (birth, family life, marriage, and death), mostly through one character, a young woman, Emily Webb, who leads an unexamined life until she encounters death.

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Life changing, very focused in its theme. It's just not much more than what it is, if that makes sense–even if it's one message is fairly profound.

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