Книга: F. Marion Crawford «To Leeward»
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Серия: "-" 1883. With frontispiece. F. Marion Crawford was one of the more famous authors in the English-speaking world at the time of his death in 1909. He wrote over forty novels, most of which were in the style of disposable romances popular at the time. He also wrote stories of the horror and occult, which are generally the ones for which he is remembered today. To Leeward begins: There are two Romes. There is the Rome of the intelligent foreigner, consisting of excavations, monuments, tramways, hotels, typhoid fever, incense, and wax candles; and there is the Rome within, a city of antique customs, good and bad, a town full of aristocratic prejudices, of intrigues, of religion, of old-fashioned honor and new-fashioned scandal, of happiness andunhappiness, of just people and unjust. Besides all this, there is a very modern court and a government of the future, which may almost be said to make up together a third city. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Книга представляет собой репринтное издание 1893 года (издательство "New York, London, Macmillan and co." ). Несмотря на то, что была проведена серьезная работа по восстановлению первоначального качества издания, на некоторых страницах могут обнаружиться небольшие" огрехи" :помарки, кляксы и т. п. Издательство: "Книга по Требованию" (1893)
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F. Marion Crawford
F. Marion Crawford
Francis Marion Crawford (2 de agosto de 1854 – 9 de abril de 1909) fue un escritor estadounidense, autor de gran número de novelas y de cuentos de terror.
Nació en Bagni di Lucca, Italia, hijo de un escultor estadounidense. Su tía era la poetisa Julia Ward Howe. Estudió en las universidades de Cambridge, Heidelberg y Roma.
En 1879 partió a la India, donde estudió sánscrito. De vuelta a Estados Unidos, publicó, en 1882, su primera novela, Mr. Isaacs. En 1883 regresó a Italia, donde instaló su residencia permanente, lo que dio a su obra un giro original con respecto a sus contemporáneos.
Siguió publicando novelas con éxito, al tiempo que trabajos históricos: Ave Roma Immortalis (1898), Rulers of the South (1900), renombrada Sicily, Calabria and Malta en 1904, y Gleanings from Venetian History (1905).
Sus obras se ven repletas de vitalidad histórica y muestran una efectiva caracterización dramática. Gran conocedor de su país de adopción, Crawford fue el primer autor en abordar el tema de la Mafia en la literatura: Corleone (1897). Son de importancia las obras: Khaled: A Tale of Arabia, la historia de un genio que se hace humano. A Cigarette-maker's Romance, que fue adaptada al teatro, y el drama de 1902 Francesca da Rimini, interpretado en París por la actriz Sarah Bernhardt.
Algunos de sus cuentos de terror han sido incluidos a menudo en las antologías: "The Upper Berth" (El camarote superior) (1894), "For the Blood Is the Life" (1911, de vampiros) y "The Screaming Skull" (1911).
Crawford murió en Sorrento, Italia, en 1909, de un ataque cardíaco.
Bibliografía
Novelas
- Mr. Issacs (1882)
- A Roman Singer (1884)
- An American Politician (1884)
- To Leeward (1884)
- Zoroaster (1885)
- A Tale of a Lonely Parish (1886)
- Marzio's Crucifix (1887)
- Saracinesca (1887)
- Paul Patoff (1887)
- With the Immortals (1888)
- Greifenstein (1889)
- Sant Ilario (1889)
- A Cigarette-makers Romance (1890)
- Khaled: A Tale of Arabia (1891)
- The Witch of Prague (1891)
- The Three Fates (1892)
- The Children of the King (1892)
- Don Orsino (1892)
- Marion Darche (1893)
- Pietro Ghisleri (1893)
- Katharine Lauderdale (1894)
- Love in Idleness (1894)
- The Ralstons (1894)
- The Upper Berth (1894)
- Casa Braccio (1895)
- Adam Johnstons Son (1895)
- Taquisara (1896)
- A Rose of Yesterday (1897)
- Corleone (1897)
- Via Crucis (1899)
- In the Palace of the King (1900)
- Marietta (1901)
- Cecilia (1902)
- Man Overboard! (1902)
- Whosoever Shall Offend (1904)
- Soprano (1905)
- A Lady of Rome (1906)
- The Little City of Hope (1907)
- The White Sister (1909)
No ficción
- The Novel: What It Is (1893)
- Ave Roma Immortalis (1898)
- Rulers of the South (1900, también conocido como 'Sicily, Calabria and Malta', 1904)
- Gleanings from Venetian History (1905)
Referencias
- John Pilkington, Jr. (1964): Francis Marion Crawford, Twayne Publishers Inc. (Library of Congress Catalog Number: 64-20717)
- Maud Howe Elliott (1934): My Cousin, F. Marion Crawford, The Macmillan Company
- John C. Moran (1981): Han F. Marion Crawford Companion, Greenwood Press (LC Catalog Num.: 80-1707)
- Bleiler, Everett (1948). The Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Chicago: Shasta Publishers, pp. 88.
Enlaces externos
- Obras de Francis Marion Crawford en el Proyecto Gutenberg
- "The Upper Berth" Creative Commons Audio Book.
Источник: F. Marion Crawford
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