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The Bridge of San Luis Rey Paperback - 2021
by Wilder, Thornton
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- Title The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- Author Wilder, Thornton
- Binding Paperback
- Condition Used:Good
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial Modern Classics
- Date 2021-12-07
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # BKZN9780063114852
- ISBN 9780063114852 / 0063114852
- Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.6 in (20.07 x 13.46 x 1.52 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region: Latin America
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Accident victims
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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About this book
The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel, first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. It tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope-fiber suspension bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the bridge. A friar who has witnessed the tragic accident then goes about inquiring into the lives of the victims, seeking some sort of cosmic answer to the question of why each had to die.
First Edition Identification
The first general issue edition of this book was actually released in
London, a few days before the first American edition. In the United
States, the first edition was preceded by a very limited "preliminary"
print run of around 22 copes, identifiable in part by the lack of a thin
green border and printer's device on the title page. The first general
edition in the US comprised somewhere between 7,000 and 9,000 copies.