This beautiful new edition features unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary material, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder.
"On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." With this celebrated sentence Thornton Wilder begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the towering achievements in American fiction and a novel read throughout the world.
By chance, a monk witnesses the tragedy. Brother Juniper then embarks on a quest to prove that it was divine intervention rather than chance that led to the deaths of those who perished in the tragedy. His search leads to his own death -- and to the author's timeless investigation into the nature of love and the meaning of the human condition.This new edition of Wilder’s 1928 Pulitzer Prize winning novel contains a new foreword by Russell Banks.

The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Perennial Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Thornton Wilder

United States

Harper Perennial Modern Classics

“Wilder’s unfashionable insistence on embracing wonders as well as woe is both gallant and exhilarating. . . .[Our Town] leaves us with a sense of blessing, and the unspoken but palpable command to achieve gratitude in what remains of our days on earth.” — The New Yorker
This beautiful edition of Our Town features an eyeopening Afterword written by Tappan Wilder, Thornton Wilder's nephew, that includes Wilder's unpublished notes and other illuminating photographs and documentary material.
Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the small village of Grover's Corners, an allegorical representation of all life, has become an American classic. It is Thornton Wilder's most renowned and most frequently performed play.

Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics)

Reference

Our Town: A Play in Three Acts

First published in 1938, this Pulitzer Prize winning play envisions the enduring truths of human existence. The three act play takes place in the village of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire.

Dramas & Plays

Harper&Row

Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the small village of Grover's Corners, an allegorical representation of all life, has become a classic. It is Thornton Wilder's most renowned and most frequently performed play.

Our Town

HarperCollins (paper)

Three Plays

Harpercollins

A Teacher's Guide to Our Town: Common-Core Aligned Teacher Materials and a Sample Chapter

Amy Jurskis

Harper-perennial

Our Town with Related Readings - Glencoe Literature Library

Our Town with Related Readings - Glencoe Literature Library

Glencoe/McGraw-Hill

Twentieth-Century American Drama

PRENTICE/HALL

July 20, 1714...the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travellers into the gulf below. Why should such an event have happened to those particular people? Did it reveal a latent pattern in human life?

The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Penguin Modern Classics)

Contemporary

Washington Square Press

The Eighth Day

Classics

Penguin Books, Ltd.

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