The Song Of Bernadette

World Books, 1945-01-01. Rep. 1st. Thus.. Hardcover. VG+/VG/GD. Box X29 HARDBACK ""SEVENTY FIVE YEARS OLD"" SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. Reprint* Date of Publication: 1945 (1941)* Publisher: Reprint Society.* Binding and cover condition: Maroon cloth, gilt title & border to purple spine label. Minimal bumps, minimal shelf wear to edges and corners. VG* Jacket condition: Black and blue illustrated paper dust wrapper White design & title to spine and face, showing no shelf price (series price of 2/6d. to back of jacket). Some shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Very small loss to head of spine, overall very slightly rubbed. Short tear to lower front edge (repaired), now in clear un-attached protective jacket. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, top edge aged, small amount of foxing to end-papers, otherwise no visible faults. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 297 pp. text. vpp. Blank at rear.* Description: Bernadette a young girl born into poverty and suffering from asthma has a religious experience of a vision of The Virgin Mary which the hierarchy don't believe. The physical manifestation of the event is a sacred well which springs from the ground following her touch. This well cures people of their sickness and after the cure of The Emperor's infant son, the Empress takes up her case and after many years the Church recognises her saintliness but insists that she enter a convent for her preservation. She is hounded by the nun in charge of novices, Sister Vauzou, but eventually everyone is persuaded that she has been telling the truth. She dies of TB at the end but is supported by the Abbé Peyramale who remarks at the end: ""You are now in Heaven and on earth. Your life begins, O Bernadette.* A NEAR VERY GOOD+ copy with some minor faults reducing it to VG. Wrapper in protective jacket.* 0