false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171248655m/92508.jpg 92508 45 This beautiful new edition features unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary material, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder.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 <i>The Bridge of San Luis Rey,</i> 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. This new edition of Wilder's 1928 Pulitzer Prize winning novel contains a new foreword by Russell Banks. 3128581 1927 The Bridge of San Luis Rey total:2077|5:503|4:716|3:622|2:184|1:52| 2077 7665 2907 278 5 9 false false Fri Aug 22 07:11:50 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 22 10:03:18 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 3 false false Tue Sep 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 22 12:29:52 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 09 07:46:34 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 3 false false Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Wed May 16 12:31:51 -0700 2007 Wed May 16 12:32:18 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Feb 06 07:49:27 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 12 19:13:55 -0700 2008
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Pulitzer prize winning author Thornton Wilder writes about: Brother Juniper, who witnesses the deaths of five people in the 1700s when I bridge in P...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 28 01:53:59 -0800 2007 Tue Jan 01 05:48:21 -0800 2008 The Bridge of San Luis Rey is a relatively short story about a Peruvian bridge that collapses in the 18th Century sending five people to their deaths. One of the witnesses, a monk called Brother Juniper, decides to trace the background of the five in a bid to understand the seemingly wanton and tr...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Dec 01 13:11:44 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 01 20:55:52 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Jun 25 23:20:12 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 25 23:24:16 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Mon Apr 16 19:07:27 -0700 2007 Mon Apr 16 19:11:25 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Sep 07 09:21:23 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 09:22:33 -0700 2009 (Product Description)

"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...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Sep 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 19:48:20 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 19:48:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jun 04 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sun Jul 19 16:15:11 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 16:18:02 -0700 2009
A couple of weeks back I rented Robert DeNiro's movie adaptation of The Bridge at San Luis Rey. The movie was so completely worthless that I felt obliged to read for myself Thornton Wilder's book on which the movie was based.

This is the conceit of the novella: five pe...more...]]> 4 0 true false Tue Dec 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 20:33:40 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 01 16:01:08 -0800 2009 1
....He saw the bridge divide and fling five gesticulating ants into the ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Aug 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 13:33:12 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 15:15:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jul 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 22:07:01 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 16:04:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 20:57:19 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 18:52:24 -0700 2009 "But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. T...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Feb 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 20 16:52:17 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 05:21:30 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Aug 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 14:49:10 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 09:09:05 -0700 2009
I thought the story was eloquently ar...more...]]> 3 0 false true Sat Sep 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 19:45:59 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 21:09:17 -0700 2009
["On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." By chance, a monk witnesses ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 06:08:41 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 06:09:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=92508