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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
By Thornton Wilder
HarperCollins, 138 pages, $19.95
A new edition of this novel, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1928, is handsomely published with an afterword that includes previously unpublished notes and other documentary material from Tappan Wilder, nephew of the author. Russell Banks, in his foreword, calls the book “as close to perfect a moral fable as we are ever likely to get in American literature.”