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**The Forty Days of Musa Dagh** (German: *Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh*) is a 1933 novel by Austrian-Bohemian writer Franz Werfel based on events that took place in 1915, during the second year of World War I and at the beginning of the Armenian Genocide. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forty_Days_of_Musa_Dagh))
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and overwhelming.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Franz Werfel
- First published
- 1933
- Pages
- 824
- Publisher
- Bermann-Fischer, Kessinger Publishing, P. Zsolnay
- Editions
- 37
- Language
- arm, German, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9783100910325
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