Ararat

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Éditeur : Pocket Books	Date & Lieu : 1974, New York
Préface :	Pages : 450
Traduction :	ISBN : 671-78694-6
Langue : Anglais	Format : 105x180 mm
Code FIKP : Liv. Eng. Gro. Ara. 478	Thème : Général

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Ararat Elgin Groseclose Pocket On the twenty-eighth day of November, in the year 1895, the dark angels of tragedy, roaming the Eastern world, alighted upon the town of Dilijan, Turkey. The town of Dilijan lay in one of the eastern sanjaks of Anatolia, not far from the Russian border, in a secluded valley, remote from the outside world, and little touched by the currents of large affairs. The shadow had already fallen upon other parts of the Empire, and the cold winds of death and destruction had been set in motion; but the mountains that lay between Dilijan and the westerly portions of Anatolia had until now screened it and its inhabitants from the blasts. The predominant community of Dilijan was the Armenian; it numbered some eight thousand souls. There were a slightly smaller number of Turks, and a sprinkling of Kurds, Syrians, Jews and other races. Dilijan was not, therefore, a large place. It might have been destroyed, or it might have continued to exist, and the difference in the then vastness ...


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Elgin Groseclose Ararat Pocket Pocket Books Ararat Elgin Groseclose Ararat Carrick & Evans edition published 1939 Pocket Book edition published December, 1974 This Pocket Book edition is the complete and unabridged text of the original, higher-priced edition, with corrections of errors of typography and syntax and certain emendations by the author. It is printed from brand-new plates made from completely reset, clear, easy-to-read type. Pocket Book editions are published by Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 630 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10020. Trademarks registered in the United States and other countries. Standard Book Number: 671-78694-6. First edition copyright, 1939, by Elgin Groseclose. Copyright renewed, ©, 1967, by Elgin Groseclose. This Pocket Book edition is published by arrangement with Elgin Groseclose. Copyright, ©, 1974, by Elgin Groseclose. All rights reserved. This book, or portions thereof, may not be reproduced by any means without permission of the author. Front cover illustration by Ben Stahl Printed in the U.S.A. Mail Service Department Pocket Books - A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 1 West 39th Street - New York, New York 10018 Please send check or money order. We cannot be responsible for cash. - Catalogue sent free on request. Titles in this series are also available at discounts in quantity lots for industrial or sales-promotional use. For details write our Special Projects Agency: The Benjamin Company, Inc., 485 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022.