Author: WIESEL, ELIE (TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY MARION WIESEL)
Title: The Oath
Description: New York: Random House, 1973. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0394487796. Illustrated by Paul Bacon. Cover Art; This book is in Fine condition and has a Very Good+ to Near Fine- condition. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The price clipped dust jacket has some beginning rubbing and wear to the spine ends and corners. "What would you say to a young stranger who wishes to die? What arguments would you use to restore his will to live? What ideas and ideals would you invoke to save him? Faced with that dilemma, the principal character of Elie Wiesel's magnificent new novel - an old wanderer named Azriel - decides to tell a story: his own. The very one he was not supposed to tell, the one he had pledged to keep to himself." "In 1955, Wiesel moved to New York as foreign correspondent for the Israel daily, Yediot Ahronot. In 1969, he married Marion Erster Rose, who was from Austria, who also translated many of his books. They had one son, Shlomo Elisha Wiesel, named after Wiesel’s father. Wiesel in 1987. In the U. S, he went on to write over 40 books, most of them non-fiction Holocaust literature, and novels. As an author, he has been awarded a number of literary prizes and is considered among the most important in describing the Holocaust from a highly personal level. As a result, some historians credited Wiesel with giving the term "Holocaust" its present meaning, although he did not feel that the word adequately described that historical event. In 1975 he co-founded Moment with writer Leonard Fein. ". Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .
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Title: The Oath
Description: New York: Random House, 1973. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0394487796. Illustrated by Paul Bacon. Cover Art; This book is in Fine condition and has a Very Good+ to Near Fine- condition. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The price clipped dust jacket has some beginning rubbing and wear to the spine ends and corners. "What would you say to a young stranger who wishes to die? What arguments would you use to restore his will to live? What ideas and ideals would you invoke to save him? Faced with that dilemma, the principal character of Elie Wiesel's magnificent new novel - an old wanderer named Azriel - decides to tell a story: his own. The very one he was not supposed to tell, the one he had pledged to keep to himself." "In 1955, Wiesel moved to New York as foreign correspondent for the Israel daily, Yediot Ahronot. In 1969, he married Marion Erster Rose, who was from Austria, who also translated many of his books. They had one son, Shlomo Elisha Wiesel, named after Wiesel’s father. Wiesel in 1987. In the U. S, he went on to write over 40 books, most of them non-fiction Holocaust literature, and novels. As an author, he has been awarded a number of literary prizes and is considered among the most important in describing the Holocaust from a highly personal level. As a result, some historians credited Wiesel with giving the term "Holocaust" its present meaning, although he did not feel that the word adequately described that historical event. In 1975 he co-founded Moment with writer Leonard Fein. ". Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: 0394487796 Modern Fiction Elie Wiesel Modern Fiction First Editions bigotry Pogroms Jews and Christians Religious History intolerance Modern Fiction Firsts
Price: US$ 25.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 34478
- Book number: 34478
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