Youth (Paperback)

To his horror, the middle-aged Captain Gulliver finds himself marooned, dying of hunger and thirst in "The Country of The Young"--a world of youth so mistrustful of age that anyone approaching thirty is ritually dispatched. Here, he encounters an ersatz aristocracy and servant class who are both appalled by and attracted to what they see in him. By virtue of age alone, he represents everything they hate--the old men immortalized in their books who have sent younger men off to war; old men who frustrate and thwart the young in order to keep themselves in power. Yet he appeals to their latent humanity and their need to do something other than just play at childish games. Through his cunning and wisdom, Gulliver manages to gain the trust of one of his female captors and enlist the help of a talented servant-class carpenter. Together they make a narrow escape, the two young islanders looking forward to the promise of a new world in which people may someday see their children grow into manhood and womanhood and hold their grandchildren on their knees. Conceived in the 1960s, amid a youthful population who had discovered for the first time its social and political clout, "Youth" might well have been Wilder's satirical meditation on the excesses of America. More than just a jab at a particular decade and the foibles of utopian idealism of young people everywhere, however, "Youth" demonstrates Wilder's ever-generous spirit, his life-long belief in community and the value of the contributions every individual can make.

General

Imprint:	Samuel French
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2014
Authors:	Thornton Wilder
Dimensions:	126 x 204 x 7mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	36
ISBN-13:	978-0-573-60110-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > General
LSN:	0-573-60110-0
Barcode:	9780573601101

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