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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.
22 déc. 2004 · A film adaptation of Thornton Wilder's novel about five people who die in a bridge collapse in 18th century Peru and a friar who questions God's intentions. Starring Gabriel Byrne, Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel and others, directed by Mary McGuckian.
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.
11 janv. 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 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.
“On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.” So begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the great achievements in American literature, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and a novel still read throughout the world.
28 mars 2003 · 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.
