Thornton Niven Wilder was an American playwright and novelist. He received three Pulitzer Prizes, one for his novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and two for his plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and a National Book Award for his novel The Eighth Day.
This beautiful new edition of Thornton Wilder's classic novel features previously unpublished notes and other illuminating documentary material as well as an updated afterword by his nephew, Tappan Wilder, and a foreword by Russell Banks.
"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, one of the towering achievements in American fiction, and a novel read throughout the world, begins.
By fate or chance, a monk has witnessed the collapse. Brother Juniper, moved by the tragedy, embarks on a quest to prove a higher order is at work in the deaths of those who perished. His search leads readers on a timeless investigation into the nature of love and the meaning of the human condition. (Goodreads)
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Thornton Wilder’s The Bridge of San Luis Rey fascinates me most with its profound and philosophical discussion on fate and how it impacts the values of individuals, not merely of those five who tragically fell into the abyss, but also all of us humans.
評分Thornton Wilder’s The Bridge of San Luis Rey fascinates me most with its profound and philosophical discussion on fate and how it impacts the values of individuals, not merely of those five who tragically fell into the abyss, but also all of us humans.
評分Thornton Wilder’s The Bridge of San Luis Rey fascinates me most with its profound and philosophical discussion on fate and how it impacts the values of individuals, not merely of those five who tragically fell into the abyss, but also all of us humans.
評分Thornton Wilder’s The Bridge of San Luis Rey fascinates me most with its profound and philosophical discussion on fate and how it impacts the values of individuals, not merely of those five who tragically fell into the abyss, but also all of us humans.
評分Thornton Wilder’s The Bridge of San Luis Rey fascinates me most with its profound and philosophical discussion on fate and how it impacts the values of individuals, not merely of those five who tragically fell into the abyss, but also all of us humans.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載