The Woman of Andros

{{short description|1930 novel by Thornton Wilder}}

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The Woman of Andros is a 1930 novel by Thornton Wilder. Inspired by Andria, a comedy by Terence, it was the third-best selling book in the United States in 1930.

The novel is set on the fictional Greek island of Brynos in the pre-Christian era, probably around 200 B.C. (i.e., in the decline of Greece's golden age though the novel does not give an explicit date)[http://www.harpercollins.ca/books/Cabala-Woman-Andros-Thornton-Wilder/?isbn=9780060518578 The Cabala and The Woman of Andros - Two Novels], Harper Collins Canada (description for 2006 reissue), Retrieved 26 November 2014(23 February 1930). [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F03E1D81339E03ABC4B51DFB466838B629EDE Thornton Wilder's New Tale Has Classic Beauty; In Its Perfection of Form, "The Woman of Andros" Surpasses His Previous Work (book review)], The New York Times The book examines conflicts between Christian and pre-Christian morality.

Though some reviews considered the novel a masterpiece, others were more critical.[https://web.archive.org/web/20141129235355/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/177102/Thornton-Wilder/biography All Movie Guide Biography], via nytimes.com, Retrieved 26 November 2014 This was the first time that Wilder's work received any significant negative critical response. Mike Gold's review in The New Republic faulted Wilder for not addressing modern social issues.Ho, Melanie. [https://books.google.com/books?id=vA1xFg80uC4C&pg=PA151 Useful Fiction: Why Universities Need Middlebrow Literature] (2008 UCLA Ph.D. dissertation)Dirda, Michael. [http://www.penelopeniven.com/resources/HarpersWilder-Review.pdf The Chameleon: Thornton Wilder's multifaced life and work], Harper's Magazine (January 2013)