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11 Ιαν 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.)
27 Μαρ 2020 · The bridge of San Luis Rey. 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.
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.
Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes, for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and a U.S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day .
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.
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by Thornton Wilder. Start Free Trial. Places Discussed. PDF Cite Share. Bridge of San Luis Rey. Colonial Peru’s most famous bridge, an old rope suspension bridge in the region between Lima...
