The Story Of Night By Elie Wiesel

Rachel Donadio writes: “‘The Story of Night’ by Elie Wiesel was rejected by fifteen publishers, before it was picked up by a small firm Hill & Wang and it turned out to be the publishing phenomenon. It led to the creation of a genre. The writer becomes an American icon and attained worldwide fame. An estimated 10 million copies have been sold” (20-1-2008). As a matter of fact, quality of writing is not the only variable for rejection. Perhaps

your book is not a good fit for the publisher, or the agent is looking for something ‘different’ or your work has just been misunderstood. Yet, no matter what the reason is, those rejection letters still sting.
Gary Smailes writes: “C.S. Lewis received over 800 rejections before he sold a single piece of writing. Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind was rejected by 25 publishers; Jonathan Livingston Seagull was rejected 40 times; Louis L’Amour was rejected over 200 times before he sold any of his writing. The San Francisco Examiner turned down Rudyard Kipling’s submission in 1889 with the note ‘I am sorry, Mr. Kipling, but you just do not know how to use the English language’; George Orwell’s Animal Farm was rejected with the comment
‘It’s impossible to sell animal stories in the USA’ ” (11 Famous, November 18, 2011).
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall likewise undergoes the same process of rejection. After The Tenant’s first release, the political leaders, the think-tanks, the church disciplinarians, and the Law custodians of the era must have spent countless sleepless nights, thinking of how to check the ‘menace’ of an awakening woman.
Upon its release, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was cold-shouldered by many critics of the time and even by the sister Charlotte herself. It was cold-shoulde...

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... arrest” ( Misner: 38) as he was considered the evil (negative) force not good for the health of the society. He was pronounced as vehemently suspect of heresy. The religious figures also believed that Planet Earth was stationary and Sun took rotations around her.
For many, many years this was their stand. They nurtured, supported and practiced on the basis of that belief.
But an Age heralded, when the glory of modern science began to be recognized. Scientists, using telescopes, began to survey the cosmos. And, what was to follow next? The age-old, rock-solid belief stood shattered and it crashed to the ground and Galileo’s theorem was proved right. Now, who was cultivating vampirism all those years? Galileo or the society that mentally and physically tortured him? Thus a vampire need not be a solitary figure. The society as a whole can be a dark, giant vampire.