Additional Resources for The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

The Bridge of San Luis Rey For Further Reading

Bunge, Nancy, “'New Modalities of the True and Beautiful': Point of View in Thornton Wilder's Novels,” in Thornton Wilder: New Essays, edited by Martin Blank, Dalma Hunyadi Brunauer, and David Garrett Izzo, Locust Hill Press, 1999, pp. 157-68.

Bunge examines Wilder's aesthetic philosophy and applies it to his fiction.

Cowley, Malcolm, “The Man Who Abolished Time,” in Critical Essays on Thornton Wilder, edited by Martin Blank, G. K. Hall, 1996, pp. 32-38.

This essay, by one of the great literary critics of the twentieth century, explains ways that Wilder toyed with the concept of time in this and other novels.

Harrison, Gilbert, The Enthusiast: A Life of Thornton Wilder, Ticknor & Fields, 1983.

This comprehensive biography by a writer who knew Wilder for several decades is one of the best books available on the writer's...
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