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Softbound. Condition: Good. Octavo, stapled apepr covers, 80 pp., yellowed paper, largely uncut Text is in Hebrew.

No Binding. Condition: Good. No Jacket. In Hebrew. 54 pages. 170 x 127 mm. Lacks the binding. The work is based on a medieval legend. The protagonist, Sister Beatrice is a humble nun whose primary responsibility is to tend the main door to the convent, inside which is a statue of the Virgin Mary, which the nuns hold miraculous. A prominent military man arrives, falls in love with the nun and convinces her to come away with him. When she leaves the statue of the Virgin comes to life, puts on Beatrice's humble clothes and takes her place. When the nuns discover the statue missing they blame the nun at th e door, who is not Beatrice but rather the Virgin Mary, for the theft of the statute. As time goes on they mainly ignore the supposed nun, who remains the door keeper for many years.After 25 years, the real Beatrice, now broken, homely, and near death, returns and collapses just at the door of the convent. At this time the Virgin ceases to take her place, and replaces herself on the pedestal as the statue. When the nuns find Beatrice they assume she has caused this miracle of the return of the holy statue and believe she is a saint. Beatrice tries to tell them of her horrible life over these years, but they don't believe her. Maurice Maeterlinck wrote Sister Beatrice sometime before 1900 as an opera libretto. Bernard Miall mentions that Maeterlinck wrote it with the idea that M. Gilkas would write the music, but it was published as a play without music in 1902 and first produced at the New Theatre in New York in March of 1910. The Russian composer Alexandre Gretschaninoff immediately set it as an opera, and it was produced at the Paris Opera Comique in 1912, but the opera is no longer available. Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck] (29 August 1862 - 6 May 1949), also known as Count (or Comte) Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911 "in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works, which are distinguished by a wealth of imagination and by a poetic fancy, which reveals, sometimes in the guise of a fairy tale, a deep inspiration, while in a mysterious way they appeal to the readers' own feelings and stimulate their imaginations". The main themes in his work are death and the meaning of life. He was a leading member of La Jeune Belgique group[7] and his plays form an important part of the Symbolist movement. Sadly, in later life, Maeterlinck plagiarized some works.