Edoardo Ballerini
Author
Publisher
Boni
Pub. Date
1927
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
235 p. ; ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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 seeks to prove that it was divine intervention rather than chance that led to the deaths...