The Bridge of San Luis Rey: SeaWolf Press Illustrated Classic

A nice edition with 10 original illustrations and the first edition cover. The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel. It was first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928, and was the best-selling work of fiction that year. It has also been made into several movies. It 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 to die.

Details e-book The Bridge of San Luis Rey

🗸 Author(s): Thornton Wilder
🗸 Title: The Bridge of San Luis Rey: SeaWolf Press Illustrated Classic
🗸 Rating : 4.3 from 5 stars (22 reviews)
🗸 Languange: English
🗸 Format ebook: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, HTML and MOBI
🗸 Supported Devices: Android, iOS, PC and Amazon Kindle

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