Our Town

1938 • 181 pages

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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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jean

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.

January 1, 2015

Deb Nance

It's a regular little town in the US a hundred years ago. It's an extraordinary little town in the US a hundred years ago. It's very ordinariness makes it extraordinary. As is, Wilder hints, all life. To walk. To talk. To eat. To drink. And, perhaps most of all, sharing this amazing life with others. Read this play and you will remember to be alive. To everything.

January 18, 2015