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Essay Archive - Thornton Wilder
Thornton Wilder
Despite the three Pulitzer prizes awarded him, Thornton Wilder may
very well [have turned] out to be one of the few enduring writers of our
time...There have been countless other authors who in his day have been far
more "discussed." That was inevitable for a man who has neither hastened to
follow nor troubled to oppose the current mode, who has gone his own way,
and who has clearly never sought the popularity which has periodically been
his (Unger 355).
The key to his significance is his extraordinary ability to combine
his philosophy and ethics with his personal experiences in perhaps one of
the greatest paradoxical pla....
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