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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)

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Thornton Wilder

paperback | Pages: 160 pages

Rating: 3.8 | 28537 Users | 1932 Reviews

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This beautiful new edition features unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary material, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder.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	:	Special 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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The most valuable thing I inherited, he once said in an interview, was a temperament that does not revolt against Necessity and that is constantly renewed in Hope.Aforesaid are Thornton Wilders words about his own self and this short work, does reflect a bit of him, perhaps. The premise behind his conjuring up this tale is Brother Junipers whimsical yet putatively scientific predilection towards finding answer in the voice of God or faith for the death of five people in the destruction of the

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,

On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.Thus begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Brother Juniper, a Franciscan monk, witnesses the collapse, and he sets out to know about the five people and determine why God chose to end those five lives on that day. Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.> poses Brother Juniper. In doing so, he asks the fundamental question

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. (p.12)Without the batting of an eye, Thorntorn Wilders presents his short story with the dilemma of the nature of the divine will and the resultant conflict between fate and randomness, faith and reason, meaning and absurdity.Set in the eighteenth century

Perhaps a ReviewA book about the connections that we forge between us, Thorton Wilders 1928, Pulitzer winning novel is a Great Gatsby-Heart of Darkness scale of a book, with the same type of compact brevity that the other two are famous for. The book also represents some of the ideas that were swirling around at the time in the modernist canon, all those ideas that were the precursor of the meta-fictive pomo literature that was to come some 40-50 years later. Its often nice to explore this

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The first sentence of this novella grabs our attention: "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." Brother Juniper was a witness to the terrible event and wondered why these five people were the victims. Was it fate or divine intervention?For six years Brother Juniper studied the lives of these five people looking for patterns in their lives, or reasons that their deaths might be part of God's plan. The