According to Wikipedia: "Francis Marion Crawford (August 2, 1854 - April 9, 1909) was an American writer noted for his many novels… ear by year Crawford published a number of successful novels. He also published the historical works, Ave Roma Immortals (1898), Rulers of the South (1900) renamed Sicily, Calabria and Malta in 1904, and Gleanings from Venetian History (1905). In these his intimate knowledge of local Italian history combines with the romanticist's imaginative faculty to excellent effect. After most of his fictional works had been published, most came to think he was a gifted narrator, and his books of fiction, full of historic vitality and dramatic characterization, became widely popular among readers to whom the realism of problems or the eccentricities of subjective analysis were repellent. In The Novel: What It Is (1893), he defended his literary approach, self-conceived as a combination of romanticism and realism, defining the art form in terms of its marketplace and audience. The novel, he wrote, is "a marketable commodity" and "intellectual artistic luxury" (8, 9) that "must amuse, indeed, but should amuse reasonably, from an intellectual point of view. . . . Its intention is to amuse and please, and certainly not to teach and preach; but in order to amuse well it must be a finely-balanced creation. . . ." The Saracinesca series is perhaps known to be his best work, with the third in the series, Don Orsino, set against the background of a real estate bubble, told with effective concision. A fourth book in the series, Corleone, was the first major treatment of the Mafia in literature, and used the now-familiar but then-original device of a priest unable to testify to a crime because of the Seal of the Confessional; the novel nevertheless failed to live up to the standard set by the books earlier in the series. Crawford himself was fondest of Khaled: A Tale of Arabia, a story of a genie (genius is Crawford's word) who becomes human..."
Echoes : The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories
Ellen Datlow, Dale Bailey, Nathan Ballingrud, Aliette de Bodard, Richard Bowes, Pat Cadigan, Siobhan Carroll, F. Marion Crawford, Indrapramit Das, Terry Dowling, Brian Evenson, Gemma Files, Ford Madox Ford, Jeffrey Ford, Alice Hoffman, Carole Johnstone, Stephen Graham Jones, Richard Kadrey, John Langan, Alison Littlewood, Bracken Macleod, Nick Mamatas, Vincent J. Masterson, Seanan McGuire, Garth Nix, Joyce Carol Oates, M. Rickert, M. L. Siemienowicz, Lee Thomas, Paul Tremblay, A. C. Wise
bookKhaled le djinn : roman fantastique
F. Marion Crawford
bookWie is aan de beurt?
Hugh Walpole, Edgar Allen Poe, Jan Willem van de Wetering, F. Marion Crawford, Frederic Brown, J.A. Barry
bookGrote schrijvers, duistere kanten
Emile Zola, Charles Bukowski, Erik Frank Russell, Edward Bullwer Lytton, F. Marion Crawford
bookThe History of Eternal Rome : Ave Roma Immortalis:
F. Marion Crawford
bookAve Roma Immortalis: The History of Eternal Rome
F. Marion Crawford
bookThe Little City of Hope (Musaicum Christmas Specials)
F. Marion Crawford
bookThe Little City of Hope : Christmas Specials Series
F. Marion Crawford
bookDelphi Complete Works of F. Marion Crawford (Illustrated)
F. Marion Crawford
bookThe Witch of Prague
F. Marion Crawford
bookThe Santa Claus Library (Illustrated and active TOC)
Charles Dickens, L. Frank Baum, Mary Louisa Molesworth, F. Marion Crawford, J. M. Barrie, Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Martha Finley, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Abbie Farwell Brown, George MacDonald, Anna Sewell, Hesba Stretton, Frances Browne, Kenneth Grahame, Kate Douglas Wiggin, June Isle, James Lane Allen, Eleanor H. Porter, Jacob A. Riis, Beatrix Potter, Sophie May, Lucas Malet, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Alice Hale Burnett, Ernest Ingersoll, Annie F. Johnston, Amanda M. Douglas), Amy Ella Blanchard, Thomas Nelson Page, Florence L. Barclay, A. S. Boyd, Edward A. Rand, Max Brand
bookAn American Politician: A Novel
F. Marion Crawford
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