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Theophilus North
novel by Wilder
Theophilus North, novel by Thornton Wilder, published in 1973. The last work published during Wilder’s lifetime, it has striking parallels to his own life experiences and may be considered a fictionalized memoir of his artistic and philosophical life.
A first-person reminiscence of life among the rich at Newport, Rhode Island, during the summer of 1926, the novel is narrated by the elderly North from a distance of 50 years.
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