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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.
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 ***
A summary of the novel that explores the lives and fates of five people who die in a bridge collapse in Peru in 1714. The narrator, a future historian, tries to understand the meaning of their deaths and the role of chance and choice in human existence.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey is a collection of interwoven stories of five people who died while crossing an incredibly tall Peruvian bridge. Plagued with the seemingly unanswerable question of whether or not these individuals were destined to die, Brother Juniper makes it his mission to learn everything he possibly can about their lives.
Dec 22, 2004 · A film adaptation of Thornton Wilder's novel about a friar who investigates the lives and deaths of five people who fell from a rope bridge in 18th century Peru. Starring Gabriel Byrne, Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel and Kathy Bates, directed by Mary McGuckian.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Thornton Wilder, published in 1927. Wilder’s career was established with this book, in which he first made use of historical subject matter as a background for his interwoven themes of the search for justice, the possibility of altruism,
A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Thornton Wilder that explores the lives and deaths of five people who perished in a bridge collapse in Peru in 1714. The novel features historical and fictional characters, philosophical themes, and a mysterious narrator who questions the meaning of love and fate.
