![]() But his unique perspective and analysis impressed me, for as a young British lieutenant he was one of the prisoners of war who worked on the two-hundred-mile stretch of railroad across Thailand and the real bridges over the Kwai (yes, there were actually two). I knew nothing about the author except what the endnotes stated-that he was a professor of English at Stanford University and author of The Rise of the Novel. The essay was “‘The Bridge over the River Kwai’ as Myth” by Ian Watt and was reprinted from a 1971 issue of the Berkshire Review. So I was really only rescuing it from neglect. In truth, the book, an anthology of expository writing called the Norton Reader, had been assigned in one of her college courses and when the class was over she abandoned it at home. ![]() About thirty years ago I read an essay that was so good I pinched the book it was in from my sister. ![]()
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