![]() ![]() Brother Juniper wonders if the tragedy happened according to a divine plan or was simply a random instance of misfortune. ![]() ![]() "Few novels identify their basic plotline as succinctly and forthrightly as the opening line of Thornton Wilder’s 1927 novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey: “On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.” The novel’s conceit is this: a certain Brother Juniper was himself about to step out onto the bridge when it broke and subsequently witnessed the plunge of five people into the abyss below. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated by Amy Drevenstedt. $125.00 Item Number: 135902Įarly printing of the author’s masterpiece and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. ![]()
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