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The Bridge of San Luis Rey

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First published: 1927
Pages: 84

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Perhaps an Accident and The Marquesa
29:09
The Marquesa
31:49
Estaban
41:24
Uncle Pio
50:56
Perhaps an Intention
22:56

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Thornton Wilder's second novel, published in 1927, opens with a catastrophe: an old rope bridge in eighteenth-century Peru snaps, and five travelers plunge to their deaths. A Franciscan friar named Brother Juniper witnesses the fall and sets out to prove it was no accident, that divine reason governs who lives and who dies. To test the idea he reconstructs the lives of the five, and the novel becomes a set of interlinked stories about love given and withheld: the aging Marquesa and her young companion, the orphaned twins Esteban and Manuel, and old Uncle Pio with the actress he made famous. Spare and quietly devastating, it won the Pulitzer Prize and asks whether any pattern can be found in accident. Free PDF and EPUB editions are available here.

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Thornton Wilder

Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) was an American novelist and playwright, the only writer to win the Pulitzer Prize in both fiction and drama. He took the fiction prize for The Bridge of San Luis Rey and the drama prize for his plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth.

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