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The Bridge of San Luis Rey tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the bridge. A friar who witnesses the accident then goes about inquiring into the lives of the victims, seeking some sort of cosmic answer to the question of why each had ...
The Bridge of San Luis Rey is a collection of interwoven stories of five people who died while crossing an incredibly tall Peruvian bridge. Plagued with the seemingly unanswerable question of whether or not these individuals were destined to die, Brother Juniper makes it his mission to learn everything he possibly can about their lives.
On July 20, 1714, an important bridge outside Lima, Peru, collapses without warning, plunging five travelers to their instant deaths. This unprecedented evet becomes a communal touchstone for the Limean population, which can’t fathom why such a catastrophe would occur.
Jan 11, 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.) *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY ***
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.
Dec 22, 2004 · The Bridge of San Luis Rey: Directed by Mary McGuckian. With F. Murray Abraham, Kathy Bates, Gabriel Byrne, Geraldine Chaplin. In 1714 Peru, a friar is tried by the Inquisition for questioning God's intentions when five die in the collapse of an Andean rope bridge.
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