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  First Edition of Messengers of God; Inscribed by Elie Wiesel to Author Herman Wouk

  WIESEL, Elie. [Herman Wouk].

  Messengers of God: Biblical Portraits and Legends.

  New York: Random House, 1976.

  First edition of this collection of portraits exploring the lives of key biblical figures. Octavo, original publisher's half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, "For Herman Wouk - in friendship, Marion and Elie Wiesel May 9, 1976." Herman Wouk was a novelist, playwright, and essayist whose career spanned more than seven decades and whose work brought the experience of American Jewish life to a mass readership with a seriousness and scope that few of his contemporaries matched. The recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Caine Mutiny (1951), Wouk went on to produce some of the most widely read American novels of the postwar era — among them Marjorie Morningstar (1955), one of the first million-selling novels centered on Jewish-American life, and the sweeping two-volume Second World War epic comprising The Winds of War (1971) and War and Remembrance (1978), which together constitute one of the most ambitious fictional treatments of the war and the Holocaust produced in the English language. Elie Wiesel and Wouk were genuine friends and mutual admirers, united by their shared commitment to Jewish memory, Holocaust remembrance, and the survival of Jewish civilization. Wiesel was counted among Wouk's friends...

  Price: $2,000.00     Item Number: 151774

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