"The Bridge of San Luis Rey" by Thornton Wilder. New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1928. Fifteenth Printing.
Thornton Wilder won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928 for “The Bridge of San Luis Rey.” The image on the front panel of the dust jacket has a Franciscan monk in front of a Peruvian rope bridge. The book tells the story of the fictional collapse of an Inca-made rope bridge in Lima, Peru, at noon on Friday, July 20, 1714. The novel recounts the event and its memorial as well as Brother Juniper’s six-year effort to chronicle the stories of the 5 victims of the collapse, with flashbacks to the victims’ lives and the events that led up to their deaths.
"The Bridge of San Luis Rey" by Thornton Wilder. New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1928. Fifteenth Printing.
Thornton Wilder won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928 for “The Bridge of San Luis Rey.” The image on the front panel of the dust jacket has a Franciscan monk in front of a Peruvian rope bridge. The book tells the story of the fictional collapse of an Inca-made rope bridge in Lima, Peru, at noon on Friday, July 20, 1714. The novel recounts the event and its memorial as well as Brother Juniper’s six-year effort to chronicle the stories of the 5 victims of the collapse, with flashbacks to the victims’ lives and the events that led up to their deaths.