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Rey First edition cover Author Thornton Wilder Country United
States Language English Publisher Albert & Charles Boni
Publication date Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Pages
138  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 bridge in Peru, and the
events that lead up to their being on the bridge.[1] 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. The novel won the Pulitzer
Prize in 1928.[2]  Plot summary[edit]  Part One: Perhaps an
Accident[edit]  The first few pages of the first chapter of The
Bridge of San Luis Rey explain the book's basic premise: this
story centers on a (fictional) event th