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  • The Song of Bernadette

    by Franz Werfel ...
    ''The Song of Bernadette'' was written by Franz Viktor Werfel (1890-1945) and translated by Ludwig Lewisohn (1882-1955), now in the public domain outside of the USA. It tells the famous story of Saint Bernadette Soubirous, who, from February to July 1858 reported eighteen visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lourdes, France. The novel was translated into English by Lewis Lewisohn in 1942 and ... Read more

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  • The Forty Days of Musa Dagh

    by Franz Werfel ...
    Translated by Geoffrey Dunlop, James Reidel ...
    Series series Verba Mundi International Literature Series
    The internationally acclaimed novel based on the heroic resistance during the Armenian genocide of 1915.This is the story of how the people of several Armenian villages in the mountains along the coast of present-day Turkey and Syria chose not to obey the Turkish government's deportation order. Instead, they fortified a plateau on the slopes of Musa Dagh—Mount Moses—and repelled Turkish soldiers ... Read more

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  • The Forty Days of Musa Dagh

    by Franz Werfel ...
    ''The Forty Days of Musa Dagh'' was first published in German in 1933, written by Franz Werfel (died 1945) and translated into English in 1934 by Geoffrey Dunlop (died in 1947), so this original English edition is in the public domain outside of the USA. This masterpiece by Austrian-Bohemian writer Franz Werfel brings the historical reality of the 1915 Armenian Genocide to intense life. You will ... Read more

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    The Song of Bernadette

    by Franz Werfel ...
    Narrated by Johanna Ward ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 7 min

    The Song of Bernadette is considered one of the twentieth century's greatest novels of triumphant religious faith. How the book came to be written is itself an inspirational and even miraculous story.In 1940, famed Austrian author Franz Werfel and his wife were on a desperate flight from the Nazi invaders, whom Franz had publicly denounced. Repeatedly thwarted in their attempts to cross the French ... Read more

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  • Between Heaven and Earth

    by Franz Werfel ...
    First published in its English translation during World War II in 1944, the first part of this book is composed of lectures originally delivered (in German) during the pre-war period, whilst the second part of the book represents author Franz Werfel's present point of view, arriving at the difficult conclusion that "complete human detachment is the first psychological symptom of spirituality…""The ... Read more

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