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The bridge of san luis rey by thornton wilder
The bridge of san luis rey by thornton wilder











the bridge of san luis rey by thornton wilder the bridge of san luis rey by thornton wilder

“A remarkably confident evocation of the secret springs of half a dozen men, women and children. Wonderfully lucid reading.” - Edmund Fuller “One of the greatest-reading novels in American writing. 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.įreshman Common Read: University of Pennsylvania Critical Praise

the bridge of san luis rey by thornton wilder

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. On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.













The bridge of san luis rey by thornton wilder