Bridge of San Luis Rey, The

American  

[thuh brij uhv san loo-is rey, loo-ees] / ðə ˈbrɪdʒ əv ˌsæn lu ɪs ˈreɪ, luˈis /

noun

1. a novel (1927) by Thornton Wilder.

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Example Sentences

On the Pacific sea voyage to Japan, however, Hersey chanced on a copy of Thornton Wilder’s novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey, the tale of five people who are crossing an Inca rope bridge in Peru when it collapses, for which Wilder had won a Pulitzer prize.

From The Guardian

Thornton Wilder sketched an invidious portrait of the 17th century French author in The Bridge of San Luis Rey; the poet Alphonse Lamartine called her the Petrarch of French prose; Proust compared her art to Dostoyevsky's.

From Time Magazine Archive