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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- Author
- Thornton Wilder
- Narrator
- Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 27 June 2023
- Run Time
- 3 hours 49 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Classic fiction
What to expect
A spare and haunting novel that won the Pulitzer Prize and has informed how literature addressed tragedy ever since its initial publication in 1927
In eighteenth-century Peru, a rope bridge collapses, dropping five people to tragic deaths in the gorge below. In the aftermath, Brother Juniper, a Franciscan friar and a witness to the disaster, strives to comprehend why these five people were fated to die in this way. Was it, he wonders, some form of divine Providence, or was it arbitrary and unrelated to the manner in which these people had led their lives?
In its exploration of love and loss, cosmic justice and injustice, and fate versus chance, The Bridge of San Luis Rey probes at questions that remain—that will always remain—fundamental to human existence.
Critics Review
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“A masterpiece.”
New York Herald Tribune
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“A remarkably confident evocation of the secret springs of half a dozen men, women and children.”
The Nation
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“[The Bridge of San Luis Rey] leaves a vivid impression of society in the golden age of the most aristocratic capital of Latin America. The histories of the five people are told perfectly with sympathy and insight.”
New Statesman
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“The essence of Mr. Wilder’s book is really the feeling in it; it is a ‘notation of the heart’ with sympathy. Gaily or sadly, but always with understanding, a belief in the miracle of love runs through it all.”
Times Literary Supplement (London)
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“One of the greatest reading novels in this century’s American writing…Wonderfully lucid reading.”
Edmund Fuller, American historian and literary critic
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Details
- Author
- Thornton Wilder
- Narrator
- Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Duration
- 3 hours 49 minutes
- Release Date
- 27 June 2023
- ISBN
- 9798200939930
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Classic fiction
Synopsis
A spare and haunting novel that won the Pulitzer Prize and has informed how literature addressed tragedy ever since its initial publication in 1927In eighteenth-century Peru, a rope bridge collapses, dropping five people to tragic deaths in the gorge below. In the aftermath, Brother Juniper, a Franciscan friar and a witness to the disaster, strives to comprehend why these five people were fated to die in this way. Was it, he wonders, some form of divine Providence, or was it arbitrary and unrelated to the manner in which these people had led their lives?In its exploration of love and loss, cosmic justice and injustice, and fate versus chance, The Bridge of San Luis Rey probes at questions that remain—that will always remain—fundamental to human existence.
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