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A bookstore in England sold a children’s biography of William the Conqueror that had been sitting in its shop since 1991.
“I have just sold a book that we have had in stock since May 1991,” the Broadhurst’s Bookshop tweeted. “We always knew its day would come.”
The store’s tweet about the children’s book’s sale has since gone viral, and received thousands of replies. Author Sarah Todd Taylor tweeted in response, “The book held its breath. It had hoped so often, only to have that hope crushed. Hands lifted it from the shelf, wrapped it warmly in paper. As the door closed on its past life, the book heard the soft cheers of its shelfmates.”
The bookshop opened in 1920, and is in the town of Southport in North West England. Its website says the store “holds a comprehensive range of books suitable for all ages, interests and pockets.”
Joanne Ball, the employee who sold the book, told NPR it was bought by an “older gentleman who was buying several books on the Norman Conquest of Britain for his grandson.”
Readers have replied to the Broadhurst’s Bookstore’s tweet with their own stories of books unsold.
Bookstore’s Tweet On The Sale Of A Children’s Book After 27 Years, Goes Viral
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(Source: NPR)
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Evacuation kit, published in a 2-page newspaper spread.
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Taste closed
Inspector, if you can’t find the murderer I suggest wrapping this up (yea)
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Elie Wiesel, on truth
“Well, there is too much vulgarization and commercialization and trivialization of the subject. It’s much too much. It began years ago. And the wave is rather high. It goes too far. And these, I believe - although the intentions may be good - but these are statements made by false witnesses.
The Holocaust is not a cheap soap opera. The Holocaust is not a romantic novel. It is something else. Now furthermore - that there are even people who totally deny that it existed. Today, you have many, many pseudo-scholars who totally deny that Auschwitz ever existed.
So I believe that faced with the embellishment of the tragedy on one hand and the denial with the tragedy on the other, we who are still here must speak up as forcefully and gently as possible and say, look, this is not the way it was.”
Elie Wiesel, in 1988 interview with Terry Gross on Fresh Air.
