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Our Town

Thornton Wilder

Form
Form Play
Year
Year 1938
Pages
Pages 110

A letter arrives addressed to Jane Crofut, The Crofut Farm, Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, and the address keeps going: the United States, the Earth, the Solar System, the Universe, the Mind of God. That is the whole wager of Thornton Wilder's play, one small town held up against the stars.

It goes so fast. We don't have time to look at one another.
Our Town, Thornton Wilder

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