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Our Town is a three-act play written by American playwright Thornton Wilder in 1938. Described by Edward Albee as "the greatest American play ever written", [ 1 ] it presents the fictional American town of Grover's Corners between 1901 and 1913 through the everyday lives of its citizens.
It is set in the 1840s in the town of St. Petersburg, which is based on Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy. [2] In the novel, Sawyer has several adventures, often with his friend Huckleberry Finn. Originally a commercial failure, the book ended up being the best-selling of Twain's works during his lifetime.
Satirizing small-town life, Main Street is perhaps Sinclair Lewis's most famous book [citation needed] and led in part to his eventual 1930 Nobel Prize for Literature. The story is set in the small town of Gopher Prairie, a fictionalized version of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis's hometown, during the 1910s. It relates the life and struggles of ...
Crispin – A 13-year-old serf and a peasant boy, living in a rural English village called Stromford in 1377. The book is written from his point of view. Son of "Asta" and "Lord Furnival" Orson Hrothgar (Bear) – A spy for a secret brotherhood uprising intent on stopping the feudal system. Works as a traveling jester.
He acquires the nickname Rant from a childhood prank involving animal organs which results in numerous people becoming ill. The sound of the victims vomiting resembles the word rant, which becomes a local synonym for vomit and therefore Buster's nickname. As a child, Rant discovers a massive wealth that turns the small town's economy on its head.
Middlemarch centres on the lives of residents of Middlemarch, a fictitious Midlands town, from 1829 onwards – the years up to the 1832 Reform Act. The narrative may be considered to consist of four plots with unequal emphasis: [ 17 ] the life of Dorothea Brooke, the career of Tertius Lydgate, the courtship of Mary Garth by Fred Vincy, and the ...
U.S. adults between the ages of 25 and 44 are eyeing small towns. "It’s been so much easier to connect with strangers and meet all sorts of people," says one 28-year-old who made the move.
"Small Town" is a 1985 song written by John Mellencamp and released on his eighth album Scarecrow. The song reached #6 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart [ 2 ] and #13 on the Adult Contemporary chart.