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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. [1]
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.
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.) *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY ***
On July 20, 1714, an important bridge outside Lima, Peru, collapses without warning, plunging five travelers to their instant deaths. This unprecedented evet becomes a communal touchstone for the Limean population, which can’t fathom why such a catastrophe would occur.
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.
The plot centres on five travelers in 18th-century Peru who are killed when a bridge across a canyon collapses; a priest interprets the story of each victim in an attempt to explain the workings of divine providence.
Jan 6, 2004 · This immortal sentence opens The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the towering achievements in American literature, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and a novel still read throughout the world. Brother Juniper, a Franciscan monk, witnesses the tragic event.
- Thornton Wilder
