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  <title><![CDATA[Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Matchmaker (Perennial Classics)]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;Three of the greatest plays in American literature collected in one volume &lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt; This important new omnibus edition features an illuminating foreword by playwright John Guare and an extensive afterword for each play drawing on unpublished letters and other unique documentary material prepared by Tappan Wilder. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;i&gt;Our Town&lt;/i&gt;&amp;#8212;Wilder's timeless 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning look at love, death, and destiny is celebrated around the world and performed at least once each day in the United States. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;i&gt;The Skin of our Teeth&lt;/i&gt;&amp;#8212;Wilder's 1942 romp about human follies and human endurance starring the Antrobus family of Excelsior, New Jersey. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1943. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;i&gt;The Matchmaker&lt;/i&gt;&amp;#8212;Wilder's brilliant 1954 farce about money and love starring that irrepressible busybody Dolly Gallagher Levi. This play inspired the Broadway musical &lt;i&gt;Hello, Dolly!&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Thornton Wilder]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[One major thing that is pointed out in this play is that people walk through life without ever really seeing anything, and this is shown on many an occasion, not really being noticed until it is too late to do anything about. People that are alive do not have the worries that life will be short beca...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19608571">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fun fact about &quot;The Matchmaker&quot; - it was a re-written version of &quot;The Merchant of Yonkers&quot;, which was based on a German comedy by Johann Nestroy, &quot;Einen Jux will es sich Machen, which was in turn based on the English play by John Oxenford, &quot;A Day Well Spent.&quot; It al...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61003407">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Our Town is my favorite script of all time!  Skin of Our Teeth my least favorite, and Matchmaker was humorous but completely forgettable.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I only read Our town and The Matchmaker]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1991</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[My Mom had a book with the same three plays that I would often read and convince my friends to enact with me. I'm sure they hated it, but at least they got some learnin'!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved the reread of &quot;Our Town&quot;, of course. Did not enjoy &quot;The Skin of Our Teeth&quot;, and &quot;The Matchmaker&quot; fell somewhere in between those two.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH is one of favorite plays of all time.  OUR TOWN.... not so much]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The matchmaker was basis for &quot;Hello Dolly.&quot;  Now you know why I gave this a 5!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Classic story telling.  Makes it an easy read.  Our Town was the best. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Thorton Wilder! The Matchmaker is one of my favorite plays.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[With five stars for &quot;Our Town,&quot; always a favorite of mine...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i just started reading our town  and so far so good!!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[3 Classic plays!]]></body>
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