The Skin of Our Teeth

Thornton Wilder

51 pages 1-hour read

Thornton Wilder

The Skin of Our Teeth

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1942

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The fire is burning low and the walls are shaking, but the Antrobus family endures through ice ages, floods, and wars in Wilder's theatrical masterpiece about humanity's stubborn will to survive. Test your knowledge of this Pulitzer Prize-winning allegory that breaks the fourth wall to remind us that we've made it through catastrophe by the skin of our teeth before.

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