Fiction - Summer 2009

Précautions Inutiles

By Thornton Wilder

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Thornton Wilder (1897-1975), playwright and novelist, was the winner of three Pulitzer Prizes and the National Book Award. This story, previously unpublished, will appear in Thornton Wilder: The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels 1926-1948.