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The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Thornton Wilder

paperback | Pages: 160 pages

Rating: 3.8 | 28537 Users | 1932 Reviews

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Original Title:	The Bridge of San Luis Rey
ISBN:	0060088877 (ISBN13: 9780060088873)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Esteban, Don Jaime, Brother Juniper, The Marquesa de Montemayor, Pepita, Uncle Pio, Camila Perichole, Madre María del Pilar, Captain Alvarado
Setting:	Peru (Perú)(Peru)
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize for Novel (1928)

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This beautiful new edition features unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary material, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder.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

This new edition of Wilder's 1928 Pulitzer Prize winning novel contains a new foreword by Russell Banks.

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Title	:	The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Author	:	Thornton Wilder
Book Format	:	paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 160 pages
Published	:	April 15th 2003 by Harper Perennial Modern Classics (first published January 1st 1927)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literature. Novels. American. Literary Fiction

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There are countless ways of wondering at circumstance. The Bridge of San Luis Rey in Peru collapsed on July 20, 1714, and killed five travelers. Was it an act of God? In the aftermath of the mysterious disappearance about a week ago of a Malaysian aircraft and its 239 passengers, this same question must have surfaced in many troubled minds. Do the tragedies that befall men belie the notion of a guided world? In his very short but profound novel, Thornton Wilder raised theological questions. Was

This is a classic novel that has been on my radar simply because it is on many "must read" lists. A Pulitzer Prize winning best seller that has been made into 3 movies and has occasionally been an influence on other novels, I figured this was a book I should eventually get to.I am settling on 3.5 out of 5 stars. Not sure if I should round up or round down . . .The idea was interesting - a monk trying to determine if there is scientific/mathmatical evidence as to why certain people die in

On the 20th of July, 1714, in the Spanish colony of Peru, five people descended to eternity, when they fell into an enormous abyss. Ironically, as colorful birds sung sweetly nearby , a beautiful scene of snowy mountains, far away, seen, and green vegetation with pretty trees below. The noon collapse of the bridge of San Luis Rey, not only killed the poor unfortunates, but maybe more important, showed the world, how precious life is. An uncommon novel because it tells the reader at the very

I had high hopes for this and it started with an incredible opening sentence. But the whole thing remained curiously flat to me despite some detailed sympathetic characters and an interesting premise. I think my reaction may have more to do with my state of mind than the book itself. Its the middle of a long hot summer, and my literary cravings are running to crime thrillers and sci-fi that I can easily absorb as I cower from the sun in the house with the central AC on so high that the senses

Let me draw a scene for you. You are standing at the balcony of a high rise building and looking down at the busy road of the evening hours. You spot a fleet of coloured cars, nudging each other with a relaxed urgency, you see little boys in nickers and little girls in frocks tugging their mothers for sweet somethings, you see ebullient couples stealing a kiss while keeping an eye on the pedestrians, you locate the lesser-privileged scrapping at the abandoned baskets for respectable leftovers,

Im having a hard time reviewing this book. It seems an insignificant booklet that deals with a strange story, a stubborn monk who tries to find a connection that logically links the death of five people in the collapse of the bridge of San Luis Rey in 1714... OK, you will say, why can such a theme be so hostile in its understanding?It made me think a lot once finished it, a book that seems to be conceived giving the reader multiple ways and possibilities of reading...Historical: with many

"Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer day, and some say, on the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God." You might think a book so focused on God and faith would fail to have the desired effect on an atheist like me. But, actually, I think the religious factor of this novel is just a small part of something which affects all of us: our need to question why