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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First English Language Translation. “When Franz Werfel, like so many of his fellow-artists, was escaping from Europe and Hitler, he paused for a few anxious weeks in the old French city of Lourdes. There he decided that if his journey was safely completed, he would write as an offering of thanks, a novel based on the life of Bernadette Soubirous. In Lourdes, over 150 years before, Bernadette, the daughter of an impoverished family, was visited by a vision of measureless kindness and indescribable beauty; she alone saw this lady of the Grotto.” The book is solid and clean.

The Song of Bernadette (German: Das Lied von Bernadette) is a 1941 novel that tells the story of Saint Bernadette Soubirous, who, from February to July 1858 reported eighteen visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lourdes, France.

The novel was written by Franz Werfel and translated into English by Lewis Lewisohn in 1942. It was extremely popular, spending more than a year on the New York Times Best Seller list and 13 weeks in first place.

The novel was adapted into the 1943 film The Song of Bernadette, starring Jennifer Jones.