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  <title><![CDATA[Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics)]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;b&gt; A handsome Perennial Classics edition of America's favourite play, &lt;i&gt;Our Town&lt;/i&gt;, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. &lt;/b&gt; &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt; First produced and published in 1938, this Pulitzer Prize&amp;ndash;winning drama of life in the small village of Grover's Corners has become an American classic and is Thornton Wider's most renowned and most frequently performed play.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt; This Perennial Classics edition includes a foreword by Donald Margulies and contains an afterword with documentary material edited by Tappan Wilder.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt; </default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Thornton Wilder]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[American playwriting at its best. I think the most stunning thing is that this book manages to convey a deep sense of human tragedy without portraying people who rabidly abuse each other. This is also why many hack directors (not to mention high schools) have been able to produce the work as a sacch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5710443">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Goodbye, Grover’s Corners<br/><br/>I saw a really terrible movie this weekend called &quot;Stardust&quot;. I thought that it would be terrific since the cast is star-studded and mostly because it was based on a novel by the very clever Neil Gaiman (who I am a big fan of, Sandman, American Gods, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21812230">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Since I read plays out loud in the classes I teach, this was my (fourth and) fifth time reading Thornton Wilder's <em>Our Town</em> in a little over a year.  I was achingly bored in the first act but, as always, once I reached the end, it was worth it.<br/><br/>This may be the only piece of literature that...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13355143">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1984</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Apr 10 19:03:29 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count>I lost count</read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[I have read this book too many times to count. It is amazingly ageless and speaks to each generation. I was priviledged to see Paul Newman open as the Stage Manager on opening night in Wesport,CT. I read quotes from it at my younger sister's funeral. I carries a lot of weight with me. Read the book ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52249403">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="719945">
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A timeless masterpiece!This is absolutely my favorite play. It is timeless and universal, pertaining to anyone, anywhere. The story takes place in a small town at the turn of the century, in 1901, and takes place over the course of about fourteen years. The story line is extremely simplistic, but al...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/719945">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Feb 09 13:19:31 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved how short it was!  As a busy mother, I found it refreshing to be able to read our Book Club book of the month early in the month (instead of staying up to the wee hours of the morning just before Book Club).  It was a nice story, but I am anxious to hear some insights from the &quot;English ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45852637">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57636031">
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    <body><![CDATA[For my English final, I had to read the play Our Town, by Thornton Wilder. This play is extremely easy to read. It only consists of three acts and all of the acts are simple. The play is introduced by the stage manager, telling about the imaginary characters and town.  Throughout the play there is n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57636031">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60143632">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is perhaps down to the fact that I was forced to study this play, along with my rather bored and disgruntled GCSE English class, as a 15 year old that I have a dislike for it. I found it quite dry and particularly unexciting as a piece of literature and having to make dozens of seemingly &quot;po...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60143632">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56045388">
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  <date_added>Thu May 14 07:19:04 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I saw an amazing production of this last night in the Village, and I would like to use this review to generate dialogue about this play for anyone who is interested. First, the production: black box theater, intimate, bare staging, bare set, except for the final scene of Emily's twelve-year-old birt...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56045388">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon May 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[When Pres. Monson mentioned this book again in Jeffrey's graduation ceremony, I decided I finally needed to read it. It is an interesting play. I do sometimes forget that I will not always have my kids (although the way Jeffrey has been acting that's a good thing!). I also don't always appreciate th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54902701">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="22904207">
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    <name><![CDATA[Carin]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Sat May 24 22:03:21 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although I don't usually read plays, this deserves each of its five stars.  I love the simplicity with which is is written--and to see it performed truly brings the message home. No frills.  No fluff.  This is life, both the bitter and the sweet and it's wonderful.  You'll appreciate each little ble...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22904207">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="53595095">
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I originally read this play in high school, but have re-read it twice since last September, as I have been working under a commission from Macalester College in St. Paul to compose the sound score for an original adaptation of the play that will be performed on the campus starting this week (April 2...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53595095">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49113060">
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    <body><![CDATA[Allow me to begin with a story…<br/><br/>When I was a sophomore in high school, my first period English teacher loved plays. The only one we were “required” to read was <u>Julius Caesar</u>, however, she added quite a few more. <u>Our Town</u> was one of them.  For whatever reason, she liked the way I rea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49113060">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41205988">
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  <read_at>Sun Dec 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this for the first time in High School.  It was dry as dust and put the class to sleep.  About 15 years ago my eldest son was in the play in Middle School.  It was fun to watch, but still not an interesting story.  My youngest, now in High School, read it with his class.  He enjoyed acting it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41205988">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51762701">
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    <body><![CDATA[Perhaps one of the most performed plays in history, Our Town tells the mundane story the fictional small New England town of Grovers Corner in the 1800s. The story is not particularly interesting or unique, just another small town story that follows two families through life, love and death. What ma...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51762701">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="21827191">
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this in high school and college and for some reason I just really love this play.  Perhaps it is because I myself was born and raised in New England.]]></body>
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    <review id="21423752">
    <user id="1132393">
    <name><![CDATA[Emma]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book made me feel simple, calm. It's written in a monotone fashion that makes you wonder how the author hit the small town target so perfectly.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Favorite Lines:<br/>I guess we're all hunting like everybody else for a way the diligent and sensible can rise to the top and the lazy and quarrelsome can sink to the bottom.  Meanwhile, we do all we can to help those that can't help themselves and those that can we leave alone. <br/><br/>Everybo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74731355">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I slipped this play into the middle of the books I have on my currently reading/to read lists, since I am thinking about auditioning for a production coming up next month.  It is just as meaningful and touching as it was when I worked tech on it 12 (or so) years ago and performed in it 6 years ago. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69481166">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this trip down Memory Lane; my high school drama club did a production of this play, and it's amazing how much I was able to visualize that while reading this again so many years later. Who says you can't go home again?! I will admit, though, that my 4* rating includes those memories. Even...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76397489">more...</a>]]></body>
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