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"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.

This new edition of Wilder's 1928 Pulitzer Prize winning novel contains a new foreword by Russell Banks.]]> 44061 3.58 7581 687 3 0 false Fri Nov 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Oct 20 23:57:25 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 29 08:18:48 -0800 2009