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The Bridge Of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder

‘On Friday noon July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travellers into the gulf below.’ In prose as sparkling as the mountain air of Lima, this great novel traces the chain of Providence and circumstance that brought those five individuals together in death. Against a background of exotic splendour, the characters stand out with superb, tragic clarity: the eccentric old Marquesa: Uncle Pio, the disreputable Harlequin; the wild young Esteban; the two children, Pepita and Don Jaime. All of them creatures of love unrequited, yet the book itself is a triumphant work of tender and imaginative compassion that has rarely been equalled.

Features;

• Folio Society First Impression No. 89
• Publisher Folio Society, London; 1956
• Brown Canvas Hardback, 144 pp
• Wood-engravings by Frank Martin
• Size 230 x 130mm, 600g

Condition: Fine – Superb Unmarked Copy

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