This beautiful new edition features unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary material, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder. </p>
"On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." With this celebrated sentence Thornton Wilder begins The Brid...
This beautiful new edition features unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary material, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder. </p>
"On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." With this celebrated sentence Thornton Wilder begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the towering achievements in American fiction and a novel read throughout the world. </p>
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 death -- and to the author's timeless investigation into the nature of love and the meaning of the human condition. </p> This new edition of Wilder’s 1928 Pulitzer Prize winning novel contains a new foreword by Russell Banks.
What a natural story teller!!! 刚读完两小章，我觉得Thornton Wilder简直是讲故事的高手，看似平淡无奇的开头，娓娓道来的情节，易被猜破的结局，但是读完很难不让人深思。上帝又或者某种超自然力量是否真的存在？这个故事让我想起了貌似是Robert Frost写的一首名叫Design的...
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0 有用 #ArtfulDodger# 2013-01-11 14:10:59
故事讲完了结尾就一般了，讲述爱的伟大，那怪最后Wilder会被评论家打入middlebrow。
0 有用 Viola 2014-02-11 12:24:25
好书！赞叹！#云图这种借梗的立刻就被比下去了#
0 有用 bayer04 2017-05-13 15:17:16
原来多线情节冥冥之中神奇的命运交错的故事从这里就开始了，Lima这个地点不能更好，好温柔的一本书。
0 有用 玑衡 2013-02-07 08:17:26
很好的材料和角度，可是居然写得那么滥情……像看琼瑶剧似的。
0 有用 知夏 2025-10-17 23:45:48 日本
着实揣测不到老板让大家看什么书 更揣测不到老板让大家思考什么问题 人无法逃离对因果的执着