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'Musa Dagh stood beyond the world. No storm would reach it, even if
one should break' It is 1915 and Gabriel has returned to his
childhood home, an Armenian village on the slopes of Musa Dagh. But
things are becoming increasingly dangerous for his people in
Turkey, and, as the government orders round-ups and deportations,
the villagers of Musa Dagh decide to fight back. The seminal novel
of the Armenian genocide, Franz Werfel's bestselling 1933 epic
brought the catastrophe to the world's attention for the first
time, and has become a talismanic story of resistance in the face
of hatred. 'Forty Days will invade your senses and keep the blood
pounding. Once read, it will never be forgotten' The New York Times
Translated by Geoffrey Dunlop and James Reidel
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
In October 1936, Leonidas - a director at Austria's Department of
Education - received a private letter in a woman's pale blue
handwriting. In it, Vera Wormser, a Jew with whom he had a love
affair years ago, asks him to protect a young talented man who has
to leave Germany for the usual and known reasons. With this news, a
world collapses for Leonidas, whose complete sovereignty was
recognized only formally by Nazi Germany."
This is the classic work that tells the true story surrounding the
miraculous visions of St. Bernadette Soubirous at Lourdes, France
in 1858. Werfel, a highly respected anti-Nazi writer from Vienna,
became a Jewish refugee who barely escaped death in 1940, and wrote
this moving story to fulfill a promise he made to God. While hiding
in the little village of Lourdes, Werfel felt the Nazi noose
tightening, and realizing that he and his wife might well be caught
and executed, he made a promise to God to write about the "song of
Bernadette" that he had been inspired by during his clandestine
stay in Lourdes. Though Werfel was Jewish, he was so deeply
impressed by both Bernadette and the happenings at Lourdes, that
his writing has a profound sense of Catholic understanding.
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