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Jan 11, 2023 · Title: The bridge of San Luis Rey. Author: Thornton Wilder. Illustrator: Amy Drevenstedt. Release Date: January 11, 2023 [eBook #69768] Language: English. Produced by: Laura Natal Rodrigues (Images generously made available by Hathi Trust Digital Library.)
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel. It was first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928, and was the best-selling work of fiction that year.
- Thornton Wilder
- 1927
On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below. With this celebrated sentence Thornton Wilder begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the towering achievements in American fiction and a novel read throughout the world.By chance, a monk witnesses the tragedy.
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“On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.” So begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the great achievements in American literature, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and a novel still read throughout the world.
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- Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975
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- Drevenstedt, Amy
- The bridge of San Luis Rey
A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about five people who die in a bridge collapse in Peru in 1714. Brother Juniper, a Franciscan missionary, tries to uncover the meaning of their lives and deaths, while the narrator explores themes of love, fate, and humanism.
So begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the great achievements in American literature, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and a novel still read throughout the world. By chance, Brother Juniper, a Franciscan monk, witnesses the tragedy.
