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Author : Francis R. Gemme
Release : 1965
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Book Synopsis Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" and "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" and Other Works by : Francis R. Gemme
Download or read book Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" and "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" and Other Works written by Francis R. Gemme. This book was released on 1965. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thornton Niven Wilder
Release : 2022-12-19
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Bridge of San Luis Rey by : Thornton Niven Wilder
Download or read book The Bridge of San Luis Rey written by Thornton Niven Wilder. This book was released on 2022-12-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Thornton Wilder
Release : 1927
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Book Synopsis The Bridge of San Luis Rey by : Thornton Wilder
Download or read book The Bridge of San Luis Rey written by Thornton Wilder. This book was released on 1927. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Penelope Niven
Release : 2012-10-30
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Thornton Wilder by : Penelope Niven
Download or read book Thornton Wilder written by Penelope Niven. This book was released on 2012-10-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thornton Wilder: A Life brings readers face to face with the extraordinary man who made words come alive around the world, on the stage and on the page." —James Earl Jones, actor "Comprehensive and wisely fashioned….A splendid and long needed work." —Edward Albee, playwright Thornton Wilder—three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, creator of such enduring stage works as Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and beloved novels like Bridge of San Luis Ray and Theophilus North—was much more than a pivotal figure in twentieth century American theater and literature. He was a world-traveler, a student, a teacher, a soldier, an actor, a son, a brother, and a complex, intensely private man who kept his personal life a secret. In Thornton Wilder: A Life, author Penelope Niven pulls back the curtain to present a fascinating, three-dimensional portrait one of America's greatest playwrights, novelists, and literary icons.
Author : Thornton Wilder
Release : 2023-08-15
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Bridge of San Luis Rey by : Thornton Wilder
Download or read book The Bridge of San Luis Rey written by Thornton Wilder. This book was released on 2023-08-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
