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1 review
Franz Werfel

Actes Sud, 1993

Verdi v. Wagner in Venice ? Melodic Power v. Heroic Drama
The book starts with the arrival of Verdi in Venice in 1882. The Maestro suffers from a creative paralysis, AIDA seemed to mark the end of his era and his career as opera composer. In town he is confronted with the success of his antidote, Richard Wagner, who is in town and who's melodramas are given at La Fenice. No other writer than Werfel, a master of German prose and gifted with a ...

The Forty Days of Musa Dagh

1 review
Franz Werfel

The Viking Press, 1934

gift book
The book was as advertised. I did not see it but my sister said it was what I told her it would be.

Embezzled Heaven

1 review
Franz Werfel

Amereon Ltd, 1940

I know it's a very old book
I read this book many years ago, and I was so pleased to find a copy of it on Amazon!If you have ever thought you could buy your way into Heaven, you should read this book!

The Song of Bernadette

10 reviews
Franz Werfel

The Viking Press, 1966

I recommend this book to *you.*
My title of this review, "I recommend this book to *you*" may seem rather bold; after all, I don't know who may or may not come along and read this review. But I stand by that title. Whoever you are, gentle reader, I recommend this book to you. It is one of those universal classics that powerfully, skillfully, and with thoroughgoing integrity, addresses a truly universal phenomenon: the ...

The forty days of Musa Dagh (Cardinal Edition)

30 reviews
Franz Werfel

Pocket Books, 1961

Deserves to be required reading
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh is an historical fiction drama set in WWI Turkey. During the war, the Turkish government imposes a policy of forced relocation on Armenian Christians living within its borders. Refusing to leave, the residents of several villages at the foot of Musa Dagh (Moses Mountain) decide to stay and fight. They take refuge on the mountain, constructing a fortress with their ...