Bridge Of San Luis Rey
de Wilder, Thornton
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.
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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.
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We all have a worldview (don't we?) that influences just about everything we encounter. Literature is no exception. Perhaps that is why I thought the main point of Thornton Wilder's outstanding The Bridge of San Luis Rey was so obvious.In many of the reviews I've read, many have stated that Wilder leaves the main conclusion up to the reader. I must disagree. The final line, so quoted by many of the reviewers, makes it all very clear to me. "All those impulses of love return to the love that made them." Perhaps, had Wilder capitalized the second "love" more would have drawn the same conclusion as I. That love is, of course, the love of the Father. This short book is rooted in Christian realism -- summed up in that final page. Life and God's ways as they pertain to life, are a mystery to the believer. Seemingly saintly people die far too early in inexplicable circumstances-- a bridge that has lasted for centuries one day breaks under the weight of an old woman, a cripple, an old man, a young girl, and a young man. But the "why" is not for us to know. We all must live in the comfort that it is His will that reigns, not ours, and that the love which sustained us in this life will see us to the next. Perhaps Brother Juniper found his answer. I know I recognized mine.
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NY: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927, 1927. FIRST EDITION PRESENTATION COPY. 1 vol., illustrated by Amy Drevenstedt, inscribed on the title-page "Amicus Amicis hoc erat in votis Thorny to Eliz-Ira-Sus-Judy New York April 17 . 1959." Publisher's original smooth tan binding, titlepage printed in green and black, with the original DJ, not price clipped, some minor chipping to… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. First edition of the author's masterpiece and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Milton J. Lesser with the regard of Thornton Wilder New Haven March 1930." Also laid in is a signed handwritten letter to the recipient from Wilder.… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Time Reading Program Special Edition. Introduction by Kay Boyle. Cover design and illustrations by Ed Young. Slight sticker residue to front cover. Tiny corner of rear bottom corner missing. Nick to side of front cover. A few small brown spots to page edges. Unmarked. Precio
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New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. First Edition. Wilder's second and best-known novel, centered around the inter-related histories of five people who plunge to their deaths in 18th century Peru, when an Inca rope bridge breaks. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1928, ranked as No.37 on The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels list, and basis… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927. First. hardcover. fine. 8vo, re-bound in full green morocco with a cloth inset from the original pictorial cover. N.Y.: A.&C. Boni, 1927. First Edition .<br/><br/> Presentation copy, " For John, with all my best, Thornton/ Davis, April 1928" . Fine copy of this Pulitzer Prize novel.<br/><br/> Precio
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NY, LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB, 1962, 1962. SIGNED BY CHARLOT (ILLUSTRATOR); #40/1500; SLIPCASE FIRST EDITION THUS FINE. Signed by Author(s). F. Precio
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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and a close to Fine slipcase with some soiling. Jean Charlot. Tall octavo (6-3/4" x 10-7/8") bound in natural buckram with a silhouette frieze of the Bridge's doomed pedestrians stamped in black on both covers, backed in fine imported black morocco leather. Introduction by Granville Hicks. Illustrated with… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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New York: Albert & Charles Boni : New York, 1928. First Edition, 14th Printing. This book is a first edition, 14th printing with dust jacket. Pulitzer winner. Measuring approximately 8.25" x 5.25" with 235 numbered pages.
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