Read The Skin of Our Teeth Online
Authors: Thornton Wilder
Novels
The Cabala and the Woman of Andros
Â
Collections of Short Plays
The Angel That Troubled the Waters
The Long Christmas Dinner & Other Plays in One Act
Â
Plays
The Merchant of Yonkers
The Matchmaker
The Alcestiad
Â
Essays
American Characteristics & Other Essays
The Journals of Thornton Wilder, 1939â1961
Caution: Professionals and amateurs are hereby warned that
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.â(Perennial classics)
ISBN 0-06-008893-1
Epub Edition © FEBRUARY 2014 ISBN: 9780062232717
1. World historyâDrama. I. Title. II. Perennial classic.
Â
PS3545.I345S5Â 2003
813'.52âdc21
2002044993
Â
03Â Â 04Â Â 05Â Â 06Â Â 07Â Â WB/RRDÂ Â 10Â Â 9Â Â 8Â Â 7Â Â 6Â Â 5Â Â 4Â Â 3Â Â 2Â Â 1
Australia
HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty. Ltd.
Level 13, 201 Elizabeth Street
Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia
http://www.harpercollins.com.au/
Canada
HarperCollins Canada
2 Bloor Street East - 20th Floor
Toronto, ON, M4W, 1A8, Canada
New Zealand
HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand) Limited
P.O. Box 1
Auckland, New Zealand
http://www.harpercollins.co.nz
United Kingdom
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
77-85 Fulham Palace Road
London, W6 8JB, UK
http://www.harpercollins.co.uk
United States
HarperCollins Publishers Inc.
10 East 53rd Street
New York, NY 10022