Stamp shown here – “The background comes from the artist’s imagination of a scene from “Our Town,” one of Wilder’s most well known works.” If you look at the image of the Thornton Wilder U.S. The stamp honoring the 100th anniversary of his birth and having won Pulitzer Prizes for two plays, and one novel. Stamp is part of the Literary Art Series. The image shown today is of the Thornton Wilder 1997 Stamp. I’m going to have to find out if he includes from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar the famous three words of “Et tu, Brute?” Thornton Wilder U.S. This novel is one I’m ordering and will be making the time to read it. The novel deals with the characters and events leading to, and culminating in, the assassination of Julius Caesar.” It is, in the author’s words, ‘a fantasia on certain events and persons of the last days of the Roman republic… Historical reconstruction is not among the primary aims of this work’. And from Wikipedia – “ The Ides of March is an epistolary novel by Thornton Wilder that was published in 1948. The Ides of March Thornton Wilder bookĪt the Thornton Wilder Society website their coverage of The Ides of March novel by Thornton Wilder Plot Summary includes sharing how the documents are arranged into four books. The book published in 1948 uses imagined letters and documents putting together his epistolary novel set in Julius Caesar’s Rome. In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by Shakespeare in Act I, Scene 2 it contains the famous quote with the Soothsayer: This is the same Thornton Wilder whose three-act play of everyday life in American small town Grover’s Corners I recall reading in High School. Vivid, compelling, and engaging, The Ides of March showcases Thornton Wilder’s unique storytelling genius. This special edition also includes an afterword by Wilder's nephew, Tappan Wilder, with illuminating documentary material about the novelist and story.The Thornton Wilder 1997 Stamp along his book, The Ides of March is today’s March 15th blog post. In Wilder’s inventive narrative, all Rome comes crowding through his pages: Romans of the slums, of the villas, of the palaces, brawling youths and noble ladies and prostitutes, and the spies and assassins stalking Caesar in his Rome. In this novel, the Caesar of history becomes Caesar the human being as he appeared to his family, his legions, his Rome, and his empire in the months just before his death.

Through imaginary letters and documents, Wilder brings to life a dramatic period of world history and one of its magnetic personalities.

The classic Thornton Wilder novel that recreates the dazzling ancient Roman empire of Julius Caesar-now with a new introduction by Jeremy McCarter, author of Young Radicals and co-author (with Lin-Manuel Miranda) of the #1 New York Times bestseller Hamilton: The Revolution.įirst published in 1948, The Ides of March is a brilliant epistolary novel of the Rome of Julius Caesar.

The Ides of March by Thornton Wilder