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The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel. It was first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928, and was the best-selling work of fiction that year.
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Thornton Wilder's compelling novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, awarded the 1928 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, endures nearly a century later because it asks fundamental questions about the meaning of life & particularly the manner in which 5 characters who perish on the bridge have lived it.
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22 de dez. de 2004 · A film adaptation of Thornton Wilder's novel about a friar who investigates the lives and deaths of five people who fell from a rope bridge in Peru. Starring Gabriel Byrne, Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel and others, directed by Mary McGuckian.
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Thornton Wilder that explores the lives and deaths of five people who perished in a bridge collapse in Peru in 1714. The novel features historical and fictional characters, philosophical themes, and a mysterious narrator who questions the meaning of love and fate.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Thornton Wilder, published in 1927. Wilder’s career was established with this book, in which he first made use of historical subject matter as a background for his interwoven themes of the search for justice , the possibility of altruism , and the role of Christianity in human ...
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A summary of the novel that explores the lives and fates of five people who die in a bridge collapse in Peru in 1714. The narrator, a future historian, tries to understand the meaning of their deaths and the role of chance and choice in human existence.
Sinopse. Em 20 de julho de 1714, no Peru, a corda de sustentação de uma ponte se parte, causando a morte de 5 pessoas na queda. O frei Juniper (Gabriel Byrne) escreve um livro sobre o caso,...
