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Franz Werfel

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Franz Viktor Werfel was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II. He is primarily known as the author of The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, a novel based on events that took place during the Armenian genocide of 1915, and The Song of Bernadette (1941), a novel about the life and visions of the French Catholic saint Bernadette Soubirous, which was made into a Hollywood film of the same name.

Books

The Heritage of European Literature
The Heritage of European Literature
conte Baldassarre Castiglione, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Dante Alighieri, Heinrich Heine, Martin Luther, Saint Augustine, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Henrik Ibsen, Plato, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Stefan George, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Saint John of the Cross, Anatole France, Livy, Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Michel de Montaigne, Niccolò Machiavelli, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Marcel Proust, André Malraux, Charles Baudelaire, Aristophanes, Paul Valéry, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ, Mikhail I︠U︡rʹevich Lermontov, Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, Guy de Maupassant, Thomas Mann, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Honoré de Balzac, François Rabelais, Émile Zola, Victor Hugo, Rainer Maria Rilke, Gustave Flaubert, Maksim Gorky, Blaise Pascal, Giovanni Boccaccio, Molière, Vi︠a︡cheslav Ivanovich Ivanov, Pliny (the Younger.), Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Friedrich Schiller, André Gide, I︠U︡riĭ Karlovich Olesha, Jean Racine, Isaak Babelʹ, Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Francesco Petrarca, Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Pindar, Lope de Vega, Martial, François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Cornelius Tacitus, Horace, Prosper Mérimée, Evgeniĭ Ivanovich Zami︠a︡tin, Vasiliĭ Grossman, Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, Paul Verlaine, Ivan Alekseevich Bunin, Aragon, Hartmann (von Aue), François Villon, Hans Sachs, Wolfram (von Eschenbach), Pierre de Ronsard, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok, graf Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov, Nikolaĭ Alekseevich Nekrasov, Sergeĭ Aleksandrovich Esenin, Richard Dehmel, Evgeniĭ Dolmatovskiĭ, Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Franz Werfel, Nikolaĭ Tikhonov, Fedor Ivanovich Ti︠u︡tchev, Afanasiĭ Afanasʹevich Fet, Maksimilian Aleksandrovich Voloshin, Alekseĭ Kapitonovich Gastev, Aleksandr Bezymenskiĭ, Aleksandr Pisʹmennyĭ, Mikhail Matusovskiĭ, Fyodor Dostoevsky