Thornton Wilder

The Bridge of San Luis Rey (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below. By chance, a monk witnesses the tragedy. Brother Juniper then embarks on a quest to prove that it was divine intervention rather than chance that led to the deaths of those who perished in the tragedy. His search leads to his own deathand to the author's timeless investigation into the nature of love and the meaning of the human condition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780063244719
• Artikelnr.: 62641440

Autorenporträt

Thornton Wilder (18971975) 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. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of his 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). The Matchmaker was adapted as the musical Hello, Dolly! Wilder also enjoyed enormous success with many other forms of the written and spoken word, among them teaching, acting, opera, and film, including his classic screenplay for Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943). The writer'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.