The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder
The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Author: Thornton Wilder

Narrator: B.J. Harrison

Unabridged: 3 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: B.J. Harrison

Published: 01/10/2023

Synopsis

Five people fall to their deaths when a bridge collapses over a river in Peru. Can Brother Juniper discover the reason that these five individuals had to die?  Exploring themes of love, goodness, and predestination, Wilder exposes the nature of his characters by examining their relationships. The bonds of parents and children, siblings, and surrogate parents are all examined with elegant skill, leading us to ask the hard questions that point to the inevitable river below. The Bridge of San Luis Rey won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1928.

About Thornton Wilder

Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) was an accomplished novelist and playwright whose works, exploring the connection between the commonplace and cosmic dimensions of human experience, continue to be read and produced around the world. His Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of seven novels, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928, as did two of his four full-length dramas, Our Town (1938) and The Skin of Our Teeth (1943). Wilder's The Matchmaker was adapted as the musical Hello, Dolly! He also enjoyed enormous success with many other forms of the written and spoken word, among them teaching, acting, the opera, and films. (His screenplay for Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt [1943] remains a classic psycho-thriller to this day.) Wilder's many honors include the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the National Book Committee's Medal for Literature.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit on March 29, 2025

The Bridge of San Luis Rey is a beautifully written book full of eternal questions. If there were any plan in the universe at all, if there were any pattern in a human life, surely it could be discovered mysteriously latent in those lives so suddenly cut off. Either we live by accident and die by acc......more

Goodreads review by Henry on October 24, 2024

On the 20th of July, 1714, in the Spanish colony of Peru five people descended to eternity when they fell into an enormous abyss. Ironically as colorful birds sung sweetly nearby a beautiful scene of snowy mountains far away seen, and green vegetation with pretty trees below. The noon collapse of th......more

Goodreads review by Emily May on September 19, 2016

"Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer day, and some say, on the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God." You might think a book so focused on God and faith w......more

Goodreads review by Valeriu on August 02, 2023

O meditație asupra relației dintre hazard și necesitate: totul se petrece pentru că așa a vrut Dumnezeu sau totul se petrece la întîmplare? În data de 20 iulie 1714, în amiaza unei zile de vineri, puntea de rafie - zisă a Sfîntului rege Ludovic - se rupe și 5 oameni pier. A fost un hazard sau lucrare......more

Goodreads review by Olga on January 23, 2025

It was difficult put down this book, maybe because its subject is love in a broader sense. Or maybe because it is so beautifully written with vividly portrayed characters that it was a sheer pleasure to read. With the help of his elegant prose through the characters' life stories the author poses a l......more

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