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Authors: Thornton Wilder

Books by Thornton Wilder

Novels

The Cabala and the Woman of Andros

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Heaven's My Destination

The Ides of March

The Eighth Day

Theophilus North

 

Collections of Short Plays

The Angel That Troubled the Waters

The Long Christmas Dinner & Other Plays in One Act

 

Plays

Our Town

The Merchant of Yonkers

The Matchmaker

The Alcestiad

 

Essays

American Characteristics & Other Essays

The Journals of Thornton Wilder, 1939–1961

Copyright

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The Skin of Our Teeth
, being fully protected under the copyright laws of the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Canada, and all other countries of the Copyright Union, is subject to a royalty. All rights, including, but not limited to, professional, amateur, motion picture, recitation, lecturing, public reading, radio broadcasting, television, video or sound taping, all other forms of mechanical or electronic reproduction, such as information storage and retrieval systems and photocopying, and the rights of translation into foreign languages are strictly reserved. All inquiries concerning all rights (other than amateur) should be addressed to the author's agent, Robert A. Freedman Dramatic Agency, Inc., 1501 Broadway, Suite 2310, New York, NY 10036, without whose permission in writing no performance of the play must be made. All inquiries concerning the amateur acting rights should be addressed to Samuel French, Inc., 45 West 25th Street, New York, NY 10010. No amateur performance of the play may be given without obtaining in advance the written permission of Samuel French, Inc., and paying the requisite royalty fee.

THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH
. Copyright © 1942 by Thornton Niven Wilder. Copyright renewed © 1970, the Wilder Family LLC. Foreword copyright © 2003 by Paula Vogel. Afterword copyright © 2003 by Tappan Wilder. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this ebook on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins ebooks.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Wilder, Thornton.

The skin of our teeth / Thornton Wilder.

    p. cm.—(Perennial classics)

ISBN 0-06-008893-1

Epub Edition © FEBRUARY 2014 ISBN: 9780062232717

1. World history—Drama. I. Title. II. Perennial classic.

 

PS3545.I345S5  2003

813'.52—dc21

2002044993

 

03   04   05   06   07   WB/RRD   10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1

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