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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 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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  • Walking With Gorillas

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  • King Alfred's Daughter

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    The award-winning author's "vivid historical novel based on the true story of the five Sacco brothers" who fought fascism and the mafia in 1920s Sicily ( Publishers Weekly).Sicily, 1920s. As socialists who run successful farms and businesses, the Sacco brothers are a prime target of the local Mafia's extortion racket. When their father receives an anonymous letter demanding protection money, he ... Read more

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  • Emperor

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