The Bridge of San Luis, Wilder, Thornton. Published by The Heritage Press, 1962, New York. Illustrated by Jean Charlot. Introduction by Granville Hicks. Blue and tan cloth boards illustrated front and back with a silhouette frieze of the bridge’s doomed pedestrians, gilt spine titles. Original Heritage Club Sandglass Pamphlet laid in Volume is in fine, unread condition; slipcase is structurally fine, with some staining and fading. Winner of the 1928 Pulitzer Prize.
“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.
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.
