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The Bridge Of San Luis Rey

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Author : Thornton Wilder
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2023-08-15

The Bridge Of San Luis Rey written by Thornton Wilder and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-15 with Fiction categories.

This Pulitzer Prize-winning, fable-like short novel—by the author of Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth—has been beloved around the world for nearly a century. This splendid and profoundly moving novel begins with a simple and seemingly senseless tragedy. "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." A traveling monk, Brother Juniper, witnesses the catastrophe and becomes obsessed with investigating the lives of the five victims in order to prove that their deaths had meaning. His mission is doomed to fail, but over the course of the story, the five unlucky individuals—a noblewoman, a maid, an orphan, an old man, and a child—come to life for the reader in all of their glorious complexity. Their intertwined lives—snuffed out in one shattering moment—illuminate the biggest questions that we can ask ourselves about the nature of love and meaning of the human condition.

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Author : Thornton Wilder
language : en
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Release Date : 2023-01-17

The Bridge Of San Luis Rey written by Thornton Wilder and has been published by Courier Dover Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-17 with Fiction categories.

A Franciscan monk, Brother Juniper, witnesses the collapse of a historic bridge, plunging five people to their deaths, and embarks on a spiritual quest to reconcile free will versus divine intervention in the victims’ lives.

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Author : Thornton Niven Wilder
language : en
Publisher: Aegitas
Release Date : 2022-12-19

The Bridge Of San Luis Rey written by Thornton Niven Wilder and has been published by Aegitas this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-19 with Fiction categories.

The story is based on a fictional disaster that occurred in Peru on July 20, 1714. A rope bridge woven by the Incas on the road between Lima and Cuzco collapsed when five people were crossing it. They all fell into the river from a great height and were killed. Brother Juniper, a Franciscan friar who was about to cross the bridge himself, witnessed the tragedy. Being deeply pious, he saw in what happened a possible divine providence. Did the dead deserve to have their lives cut short in such a terrible way? The monk tries to learn as much as he can about the five victims, finding and questioning people who knew them. As a result of years of investigation, he compiles a voluminous book with all the evidence he has gathered that the beginning and end of human life are part of God's plan... The Bridge of San Luis Rey won the 1928 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, and remains widely acclaimed as Wilder's most famous work. In 1998, the book was rated number 37 by the editorial board of the American Modern Library on the list of the 100 best 20th-century novels. Time magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.

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Author : Thornton Wilder
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1927

The Bridge Of San Luis Rey written by Thornton Wilder and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1927 with Accident victims categories.

Set in 18th century Lima, Peru, a rickety bridge which has spanned a deep gorge for ages suddenly breaks, and five people plunge to their deaths. A priest who is deeply affected by the catastrophe decides to make an investigative study of the lives of the victims to determine if he can find some clue to God's intention in casting five dis-associated mortals into eternity at precisely the same moment.

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