The Ages Of Man

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1986

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Presents Wilder's series of stirring short works that capture four important stages of life.

Infancy. Nursemaid Millie brings baby Tommy to Central Park in the hopes of a rendezvous with handsome patrolman Avonzino.

Childhood. A child's-eye view of the grown-up world, as a father, mother, and their three children play a revealing game of make-believe.

Youth. To his horror, 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.

The rivers under the earth. On a point of land jutting into a lake in southern Wisconsin, the Carter family--Mr. and Mrs. Carter and their teen-aged son and duaghter--enjoys a summer's eve.

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