In this novel, a woman breaks off relations with her valet after he catches her covering her smallpox-disfigured face with powder.
In this novel, a woman breaks off relations with her valet after he catches her covering her smallpox-disfigured face with powder. Its last chapter includes a chart assessing, on a scale from -10 to 10, the goodness, piety, and usefulness of several people. A man in this novel dies of an infection after cutting his knee on a piece of metal, which leads him to deliriously confess his love for the actress La Perichole. This novel's protagonist condenses his investigation of the main event into a book that is deemed heretical and burned along with him in a town square. In this novel, Brother Juniper watches as Jaime, Uncle Pio, Esteban, Pepita, and the Marquesa de Montemayor fall to their deaths. For 10 points, name this novel in which a rickety Peruvian structure collapses, by Thornton Wilder.
In this novel, a woman breaks off relations with her valet after he catches her covering her smallpox-disfigured face with powder.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey