The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Perennial Classics (Prebound))

The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Perennial Classics (Prebound))
by Thornton Wilder

The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Perennial Classics (Prebound))
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Author: Thornton Wilder
Foreword: Russell Banks
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-04
ISBN: 0812415248
Number of pages: 138
Publisher: Perfection Learning

Summary of The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Perennial Classics (Prebound))

This beautiful new edition features unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary mate- rial, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder.

"On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714,the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipi-tated 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. Brother Juniper then embarks on a quest to prove that it was divine intervention rather than chance that led to the deaths of those who perished in the tragedy. His search leads to his own death -- and to the author's timeless investigation into the nature of love and the meaning of the human condition.

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