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Marking the thirtieth anniversary of "Theophilus North," this beautiful new edition features Wilder´s unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary material, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder. The lastof Wilder´s works published during his lifetime, this novel is part autobiographical and part the imagined adventure of his twin brother who died at birth. Setting out to see the world in the summer of 1926, "Theophilus North" gets as far as Newport, Rhode Island, before his car breaks down. To support himself, Theophilus takes jobs in the elegant mansions along Ocean Drive, just as Wilder himself did in the same decade. Soon the young man finds himself playing the roles of tutor, spy, confidant, lover, friend, and enemy as he becomes entangled in the intrigues of both upstairs and downstairs in a glittering society dominated by leisure.

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