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.[1]
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A bridge woven by the Incas a century earlier had collapsed.
Pride goeth before a fall. Or, in this case, smallpox cometh instead of a fall. La Perichole manages to avoid the ultimate agony of death that result from the bridge collapse, but she perhaps suffers even more from the ravages of the pox which...
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