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Saracinesca

1887. 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. Saracinesca begins: In the year 1865 Rome was still in a great measure its old self. It had not then acquired that modern air which is now beginning to pervade it. The Corso had not been widened and whitewashed; the Villa Aldobrandini had not been cut through to make the Via Na*zionale; the south wing of the Palazzo Colonna still looked upon a narrow lane through which men hesitated to pass after dark; the Tiber’s course had not then been corrected below the Farnesina; the Farnesina itself was but just under repair; the iron bridge at the Ripetta was not dreamed of; and the Prati di Castello were still, as their name implies, a series of waste meadows. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Sant’ Ilario

F. Marion Crawford 1854 1909 was born in Italy, the son of the Irish American sculptor, Thomas Crawford, and a sister of Julia Ward Howe, and was one of the most popular novelists of his day. With a cosmopolitan education in Italy, America, England, and Germany and extensively traveled including a stint in India as a newspaper editor, Crawford was the living embodiment, for many, of the late 19th century genteel tradition. His wide range as a traveler has contributed doubtless to another characteristic quality: his strength in unexcelled portraits of odd characters and his magical skill in seeming to make his readers witnesses of the spectacles. Saracinesca is the first novel of his Roman tetralogy, the lush and evocative novels of Italian life and character which form the core of his oeuvre. It chronicles the shifting fortunes of a princely house against a panoramic background of Roman society in the later nineteenth century. Saracinesca and its sequel Sant’ Ilario are romances of passion and jealousy, featuring feuds, duels, suicides, and reconciliation. The third title in the series, Don Orsino, exposes the corruptions of Italian financial life; and Corleone, published much later, is a Sicilian episode that brings the Saracinesca into contact with the Mafia.

Don Orsino

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ‘Did he?’ inquired Orsino indifferently. ‘It is all the same they do not know it, and they want a tiger. When I left they were debating whether they wanted it alive or dead. I thought of buying one at the Prati di Castello, but it seemed cheaper to borrow the skin of you. May I take it?’ Sant’ Ilario laughed. Orsino rolled up the great hide and carried it to the door. ‘Who is the lady, my boy?’ ‘I never saw her before a certain Donna Maria d’Aranjuez d’Aragona. 1 fancy she must be a kind of cousin. Do you know anything about her? ‘ ‘I never heard of such a person. Is that her own name?’ ‘No she seems to be somebody’s widow.’ ‘That is definite. What is she like?’ ‘Passably handsome yellow eyes, reddish hair, one eye wanders.’ ‘What an awful picture! Do not fall in love with her, Orsino.’ ‘No fear of that but she is amusing, and she wants the tiger.’ ‘ You seem to be in a hurry,’ observed Sant’ Ilario, considerably amused. ‘Naturally. They are waiting for me.’ ‘ Well, go as fast as you can never keep a woman waiting. By the way, bring the skin back. I would rather you bought twenty live tigers at the Prati than lose that old thing.’ Orsino promised and was soon in his cab on the way to Gouache’s studio, having the skin rolled up on his knees, the head hanging out on one side and the tail on the other, to the infinite interest of the people in the street. He was just congratulating himself on having wasted so little time in conversation with his father, when the figure of a tall woman walking towards him on the pavement, arrested his attention. His cab must pass close by her, and there was no mistaking his mother at a hundredyards’ distance. She saw him too and made a sign with her parasol for him to stop. ‘Good morning, Orsino,’ said the swe…

Corleone

Thy asked Orsino, without a smile. It would be as sensible to say that a man who had never seen Borne particular thing, about which he has heard much, might as well put out his eyes. The young priest laughed again, took up the cigar he had laid upon the edge of the piano, puffed at it till it burned freely, and then struck two or three chords of a modulation. A sheet of ruled paper on which several staves of music were roughly jotted down in pencil stood on the rack of the instrument. Oraino stretched out his long legs, leaned back in his low chair, and stared at the old gilded rosettes in the square divisions of the carved ceiling. He was a discontented man, and knew it, which made his discontent a matter for self reproach, especially as it was quite clear to him that the cause of it lay in himself. He had made two great mistakes at the beginning of life, Wen barely of age, and though neither of them had ultimately produced any serious material consequences, they had affected his naturally melancholic temper and had brought out his inherited hardness of disposition. At the time of the peat building speculatiorls in Rome, several pars earlier, he bad fbolishly involved himself with his fathers old enemy, Ugo del Ferice, and had found himself at last altogether in the latters power, though not in reality his debtor. At the same time, he had fallen very much in love with a. young widow, who, loving him very sincerely ia her turn, but believing, for many reasons, that if she married him she would be doing him an irreparable injury, had sacrificed herself by marrying Del Ferice instead, selling herself to the banker for sinos release, without the latters knowledge. When it was all over, Orsino had found himself a disappointed man at an age when most young fellows do little more than inexperienced boys, and the serious disposition which he inherited from his mother made it impossible for him to throw off the impression received, and claim the youth, so to speak, which was still his. Since that time, he had been atracted by wornen, but never charmed and thoso that attracted him a were for the most part not marriageable, any more than the few things which sometimes interested and amused him were in any sense profitable. He spent a good deal of money in a careless way, for his father was generous but his rather bitter experience when he had attempted to occupy himself with business had made him cool and clear headed, so that he never did anything at all ruinous. The hot temper which he had inherited from his father and grandfatber now rarely, if ever, showed itself, and it seemed as though nothing could break through the quiet indifference which had become a second outward nature to him. He had travelled much, of late years, and when he made an effort his conversation was not uninteresting, though the habit of looking at both sides of every question made it cold aad unenthu siastic. . Perhaps it was a hopeful sign that he generally had a definite opinion ae to which of two views he preferred, though he wodd not take any trouble to convince others that he was right. In his own family, he liked the company of Ippolito best. The latter was about two years younger than he, and very different from him in almost every way. Orsino was tall, strongly built, extremely dark Ippolito was of medium height, delicately made, and almost fair by comparison…

Mr. Isaacs

Thy asked Orsino, without a smile. It would be as sensible to say that a man who had never seen Borne particular thing, about which he has heard much, might as well put out his eyes. The young priest laughed again, took up the cigar he had laid upon the edge of the piano, puffed at it till it burned freely, and then struck two or three chords of a modulation. A sheet of ruled paper on which several staves of music were roughly jotted down in pencil stood on the rack of the instrument. Oraino stretched out his long legs, leaned back in his low chair, and stared at the old gilded rosettes in the square divisions of the carved ceiling. He was a discontented man, and knew it, which made his discontent a matter for self reproach, especially as it was quite clear to him that the cause of it lay in himself. He had made two great mistakes at the beginning of life, Wen barely of age, and though neither of them had ultimately produced any serious material consequences, they had affected his naturally melancholic temper and had brought out his inherited hardness of disposition. At the time of the peat building speculatiorls in Rome, several pars earlier, he bad fbolishly involved himself with his fathers old enemy, Ugo del Ferice, and had found himself at last altogether in the latters power, though not in reality his debtor. At the same time, he had fallen very much in love with a. young widow, who, loving him very sincerely ia her turn, but believing, for many reasons, that if she married him she would be doing him an irreparable injury, had sacrificed herself by marrying Del Ferice instead, selling herself to the banker for sinos release, without the latters knowledge. When it was all over, Orsino had found himself a disappointed man at an age when most young fellows do little more than inexperienced boys, and the serious disposition which he inherited from his mother made it impossible for him to throw off the impression received, and claim the youth, so to speak, which was still his. Since that time, he had been atracted by wornen, but never charmed and thoso that attracted him a were for the most part not marriageable, any more than the few things which sometimes interested and amused him were in any sense profitable. He spent a good deal of money in a careless way, for his father was generous but his rather bitter experience when he had attempted to occupy himself with business had made him cool and clear headed, so that he never did anything at all ruinous. The hot temper which he had inherited from his father and grandfatber now rarely, if ever, showed itself, and it seemed as though nothing could break through the quiet indifference which had become a second outward nature to him. He had travelled much, of late years, and when he made an effort his conversation was not uninteresting, though the habit of looking at both sides of every question made it cold aad unenthu siastic. . Perhaps it was a hopeful sign that he generally had a definite opinion ae to which of two views he preferred, though he wodd not take any trouble to convince others that he was right. In his own family, he liked the company of Ippolito best. The latter was about two years younger than he, and very different from him in almost every way. Orsino was tall, strongly built, extremely dark Ippolito was of medium height, delicately made, and almost fair by comparison…

Doctor Claudius

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: lights, subsiding into a low chair while the servant brought them. The candles flickered in the light breeze that fanned fitfully through the room, and, finding it difficult to read, the Countess sent for Miss Skeat. ‘What a tiny little world it is!’ said Margaret, by way of opening the conversation. Miss Skeat sat down by the table. She was thin and yellow, and her bones were on the outside. She wore gold rimmed eyeglas*ses, and was well dressed, in plain black, with a single white ruffle about her long and sinewy neck. She was hideous, but she had a certain touch of dignified elegance, and her face looked trustworthy and not unkind. ‘Apropos of anything especial?’ asked she, seeing that the Countess expected her to say something. ‘Do you remember when I dropped my parasol at Heidelberg?’ ‘Perfectly,’ replied Miss Skeat. ‘And the man who picked it up, and who looked like Niemann in Lohengrin?’ ‘Yes, and who must have been a professor. I remember very well.’ ‘A friend of mine brought a friend of his to see me this afternoon, and the man himself is coming tomorrow.’ ‘What is his name?’ asked the lady companion. ‘I am sure I don’t know, but Mr. Barker says he is very eccentric. He is very rich, and yet he lives in a garret in Heidelberg and wishes he were poor.’ ‘Are you quite sure he is in his right mind, dear Countess?’ Margaret looked kindly at Miss Skeat. Poor lady! Doctor Claudius. 4 she had been rich once, and had not lived in a garret. Money to her meant freedom and independence. Not that she was unhappy with Margaret, who was always thoughtful and considerate, and valued her companion as a friend; but she would rather have lived with Margaret feeling it was a matter of choice and not of necessity, for she came of good Scottish blood,…

A Roman Singer

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Now I ought to tell you that many things in this story were only told me quite lately; for at first I would not help Nino at all, thinking it was but a foolish fancy of his boy’s heart and would soon pass. I have tried to gather and to order all the different incidents into one harmonious whole, so that you can follow the story; and you must not wonder that I can describe some things which I did not see, and that I know how some of the people felt; for Nino and I have talked over the whole matter very often, and the baroness came here and told me her share, though I wonder how she could talk so plainly of what must have given her so much pain. But it was very kind of her to come; and she sat over there in the old green arm chair, by the glass case which has the artificial flowers under it, and the sugar lamb the padre curato gave Nino when he made his first communion at Easter. However, it is not time to speak of the baroness yet, but I cannot forget her. Nino was very amusing when he began to love the young countess, and the very first morning the day after we had been to St. Peter’s he went out at half past six, though it was only just sunrise, for we were in October. I knew very well that he was going for his extra lesson with De Pretis, but I hadnothing to say about it, and I only recommended him to cover himself well, for the scirocco had passed and it was a bright morning, with a clear tramontana wind blowing fresh from the north. I can always tell when it is a tramontana wind, before I open my window, for Mariuccia makes such a clattering with the coffee pot in the kitchen, and the goldfinch in the sitting room sings very loud; which he never does if it is cloudy. Nino, then, went off to Maestro Ercole’s house for his singing, and this is what happene…

To Leeward

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 and unhappiness, 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.

The Children of the King

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1905 Original Publisher: Macmillan and co. Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary History / General History / Europe / Italy Literary Collections / American / General Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / American / General Travel / Europe / Italy Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million Books. com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. Ten years have passed since the ever memorable day on which The Children of the King hurt their fists so badly in battering Don Pietro Casale’s sharp nose. They are big, bony men, now, with strongly marked features, short yellow hair and fair beards. So far they are alike, and at first sight might be taken for twin brothers. But there is a marked difference between them in character, which shows itself in their faces. Ruggiero’s eye is of a colder blue, is less mobile and of harder expression than Sebastiano’s. His firm lips are generally tightly closed, and his square chin is bolder than his brother’s. He is stronger, too, though not by very much, and though he is more silent and usually more equable, he has by far the worse temper of the two. At sea there is little to choose between them. Perhaps, on the whole, Sebastiano has always been the favourite amongst his companions, while Ruggiero has been thoughtthe more responsible and possibly the more dangerous in a quarrel. Both, however, have acquired an extraordinarily good reputation as seamen, and also as boatmen on the pleasure craft of all sizes which sail the gulf of Naples during the summer season. They have made several long voyages, too. They have been to New York and to Buenos Ayres and have seen many ports of Europe and America, and much weat…

A Tale of a Lonely Parish

Francis Marion Crawford 1854 1909 was an American writer noted for his many novels. He was born at Bagni di Lucca, Italy. In 1879 he went to India, where he studied Sanskrit and edited the Allahabad Indian Herald. Returning to America he continued to study Sanskrit at Harvard University for a year, contributed to various periodicals, and in 1882 produced his first novel, Mr Isaacs. This book had an immediate success, and its author’s promise was confirmed by the publication of Doctor Claudius: A True Story 1883. After a brief residence in New York and Boston, in 1883 he returned to Italy, where he made his permanent home. He also published the historical works, Ave Roma Immortalis 1898, Rulers of the South 1900 renamed Sicily, Calabria and Malta in 1904, and Gleanings from Venetian History 1905. 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.

Paul Patoff

Francis Marion Crawford 1854 1909 was an American writer noted for his many novels. He was born at Bagni di Lucca, Italy. In 1879 he went to India, where he studied Sanskrit and edited the Allahabad Indian Herald. Returning to America he continued to study Sanskrit at Harvard University for a year, contributed to various periodicals, and in 1882 produced his first novel, Mr Isaacs. This book had an immediate success, and its author’s promise was confirmed by the publication of Doctor Claudius: A True Story 1883. After a brief residence in New York and Boston, in 1883 he returned to Italy, where he made his permanent home. He also published the historical works, Ave Roma Immortalis 1898, Rulers of the South 1900 renamed Sicily, Calabria and Malta in 1904, and Gleanings from Venetian History 1905. 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.

Greifenstein

Francis Marion Crawford 1854 1909 was an American writer noted for his many novels. He was born at Bagni di Lucca, Italy. In 1879 he went to India, where he studied Sanskrit and edited the Allahabad Indian Herald. Returning to America he continued to study Sanskrit at Harvard University for a year, contributed to various periodicals, and in 1882 produced his first novel, Mr Isaacs. This book had an immediate success, and its author’s promise was confirmed by the publication of Doctor Claudius: A True Story 1883. After a brief residence in New York and Boston, in 1883 he returned to Italy, where he made his permanent home. He also published the historical works, Ave Roma Immortalis 1898, Rulers of the South 1900 renamed Sicily, Calabria and Malta in 1904, and Gleanings from Venetian History 1905. 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.

A Cigarette Maker’s Romance

Francis Marion Crawford 1854 1909 was an American writer noted for his many novels. He was born at Bagni di Lucca, Italy. In 1879 he went to India, where he studied Sanskrit and edited the Allahabad Indian Herald. Returning to America he continued to study Sanskrit at Harvard University for a year, contributed to various periodicals, and in 1882 produced his first novel, Mr Isaacs. This book had an immediate success, and its author’s promise was confirmed by the publication of Doctor Claudius: A True Story 1883. After a brief residence in New York and Boston, in 1883 he returned to Italy, where he made his permanent home. He also published the historical works, Ave Roma Immortalis 1898, Rulers of the South 1900 renamed Sicily, Calabria and Malta in 1904, and Gleanings from Venetian History 1905. 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.

Khaled

In 1909, F. Marion Crawford was one of the most widely read novelists of the English speaking world. His fame was such that when he became seriously ill in March of that year, his progress was reported on the front page of The New York Times on a daily basis for the last week of his life. His obituary spilled over onto page 2 of the Times. In the Italian village of Sant Agnello, where he lived, all the shops were immediately closed upon his death, the door of each bearing a sign saying closed for public mourning.

He had written over 40 novels by the time of his death, as well as a play and several histories of Italy.

Today, like Robert W. Chambers, Edward Lucas White, and Edward Bulwer Lytton, he is little remembered for the bulk of his work, which like theirs consisted largely of romances and historical fiction. The works of these writers that have survived the test of time are for the most part fantasies and tales of horror. Today, Crawford is remembered to some extent for a few fantasy novels and the ghostly tales in The Complete Wandering Ghosts forthcoming from Wildside Press.

Khaled 1891 is perhaps the most effective of Crawford’s fantasy novels. It’s an Arabian fantasy sometimes compared to Beckford’s Vathek, and it concerns a genie who is made mortal as a punishment.

The Witch of Prague

‘Illustrated. The witch Unorna pursues true love. While she is being pursued by Israel Kafka who is madly in love with her, Unorna falls madly in love with ”The Wanderer,” who goes about the world in search of his long lost love, Beatrice. Unorna is not able to make the Wandered fall in love with her without making many attempts at casting spells on him and plotting against anyone who comes in her way. Can her hypnotic powers succeed, and can she free herself from her agony through the purity of her love? By Marion Crawford’

Pietro Ghisleri

1892. 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. Pietro Ghisleri begins: The relation of two stepsisters is unusual. When the Honorable Mrs. Carlyon came to Rome twenty years ago, a young widow and the mother of a little girl named Laura, she did not foresee the complications which her second marriage was to produce. She was a good woman in her way, and if she had guessed what it would mean to be the stepmother of Adele Braccio she might have hesitated before marrying Camillo of that name, commonly known as the Prince of Gerano. For the Prince had also been married before, and his first wife had left him this one child, Adele, who was only a year and a half older than little Laura Carlyon. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Casa Braccio

DURING the first few months of their marriage Reanda and Gloria believed themselves happy, and really were, since there is no true criterion of mans happiness but his own belief in it. They took a small furnished apartment at the corner of the Mace1 de Oorvi, with an iron balcony over looking the Forum of Trajan. They would have had no difficulty in obtaining other rooms adjoining the two Reanda bad so long occupied in the Palaz zetto Borgia, but Gloria was opposed to the arrangement, and Reanda did not insist upon it. The Forum of Trajan was within a convenient distance of the palace, and he went daily to his work, Besides, said Gloria, you will not always be painting frescoes for Donna Francesca. I want you to paint a great picture, and send it to Paris and get a medal. She was ambitious for him, and dreamed of his winning world wide fame. She loved him, and she felt that Fmncesca had caged him, as Francesca herself had once felt. She wished to remove him altogether from the latters influence, both be cause she was frankly jealous of his friendship for the older woman, and wished to have him quite to herself, and also in the belief that he could do greater things if he were dtogether freed from the thsk of decorating the palace, which had kept him far too long in one limited sequence of produc tion. There was, moreover, a selfish consideration of vanity in her view, closely linked with her unbounded admiration for her husband. She knew that she was beautiful, and she wished his greatest work to be a painting of herself. Gloria, however, wished also to take a position in Roman society, and the only person who could help her and her husband to cross the line was Francesca Campodonico. It was therefore impossible for Gloria to break up the intimacy altogether, however much she might wish to do so. meanwhile, too, Reanda had pot finished his frescoes. Soon after the marriage, which took place in the summer, Dalrymple left Rome, intending to be absent but a few months in Scotland, where his presence was necessuy on account of certain family affairs and arrangements consequent upon the death of Lord Xedin, the head of his branch of the Dal rymples, and of Lord Redins son only a few weeks later, whereby the title went to an aged great uncle of Angus Dalrymples, who was unmarried, so that Dalrymples only brother became the next heir. Gloria was therefore quite alone with her hus band. Paul Griggs had also left Rome for a time on business connected with his journalistic career. , He had in reality been unwilling to expose himself to the unnecessary suffering of witnessing Glorias happiness, and had taken the earliest opportunity of going away. GIoria herself was at first pleased by his departure. Later, however, she wished that he mould come back. She had no one to whom she could turn when she was in need of any advice on matters which Beanda could not or would not decide. Reanda himself was at fist as absolutely happy as he lid expected to be, and Francesca Camdonico congratulated herseLf on having brought about a perfectly successful match. While he con tinued to work at the Palazzetto Borgia, the two were often together for hours, as in former times. Gloria had at st come regularly in the course of the morning and sat in the hall while her husband was painting, but she had found it a monotonous air after a while. Beanda could not talk per petually…

The Ralstons

1893. 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. The Ralstons begins: Alexander Lauderdale Junior was very much exercised in spirit concerning the welfare of his two daughters, of whom the elder was Charlotte and the younger was Katherine. Charlotte had been married, nearly two years before the opening of this tale, to Benjamin Slayback, the well known member of Congress from Nevada, and lived in Washington. Katherine was still at home, living with her father and mother and grandfather, in the old house in Clinton Place, in the city of New York. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

A Rose of Yesterday

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III When Archie Harmon disappeared and left the colonel and his mother together, she supposed that he had gone to his room to sleep, for he slept a great deal, or to amuse himself after his fashion, and she did not ask him where he was going. She knew what his favourite amuseme*nt was, though he did his best to keep it a secret from her. There was a certain mysterious box, which he had always owned, and took everywhere with him, and of which he always had the key in his pocket. It took up a good deal of space, but he could never be persuaded to leave it behind when they went abroad. To day he went to his room, as usual, locked the door, took off his coat, and got the box out of a corner. Then he sat down on the floor and opened it. He took out some child’s building blocks, some tin soldiers, much the worse for wear, for he was ashamed to buy new ones, and a small and gaudily painted tin cart, in which an impossible lady and gentleman ofpapier mache’, dressed in blue, grey, and yellow, sat leaning back with folded arms and staring, painted eyes. There were a few other toys besides, all packed away with considerable neatness, for Archie was not slovenly. He sat cross legged on the floor, a strong grown man of nearly twenty years, and began to play with his blocks. His eyes fixed themselves on his occupation, as he built up a little gateway with an arch and set red legged French soldiers on each side of it for sentinels. He had played the same game a thousand times already, but the satisfaction had not diminished. One day in a hotel he had forgotten to lock the door, and his mother had opened it by mistake, thinking it was that of her own room. Before he could look round she had shut it again, but she had seen, and it had been like a knife thrust. She kept his sec…

Via Crucis

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: With those words the white sleeved arm was high above his head, holding up the plain white wooden cross, and there was silence for a moment. But when the people saw that he had finished speaking, they drew deep breath, and the air thundered with the great cry that came. ‘ Crosses! Give us crosses! ‘ And they pressed upon one another to get nearer. The King had risen, and the Queen with him, and he came forward and knelt at Bernard’s feet, with bent head and folded hands. The great abbot took pieces of scarlet cloth from a page who held them ready in a basket, and he fastened them upon the King’s left shoulder and then raised his right hand in blessing. The people were silent again and looked on, and many thought that the King, in his great mantle and high crown, was like a bishop wearing a cope, for he had a churchman’s face. He rose to his feet and stepped back; but he was scarcely risen when the Queen stood in his place, radiant, the evening light in her hair. ‘I also will go,’she said in a clear, imperious voice. ‘Give me the Cross !’ She knelt and placed her hands together, as in prayer, and there was a fair light in her eyes as she looked up to Bernard’s face. He hesitated a moment, then took a cross and laid it upon her mantle, and she smiled. A great cry went up from all the knights, and then from the people, strong and triumphant, echoing, falling, and rising again. ‘ God save the Queen! the Queen that wears the Cross !’ And suddenly every man held up his sword by the sheath, and the great cross hilts made forests of crosses in the glowing air. But the Queen’s three hundred ladies pressed upon her. ‘ We will not leave youl ‘ they cried. ‘We will take the Cross with you!’ And they thronged upon Bernard like a flight of doves, holding out white h…

In the Palace of the King

Francis Marion Crawford 1854 1909 was an American writer noted for his many novels. He was born at Bagni di Lucca, Italy. In 1879 he went to India, where he studied Sanskrit and edited the Allahabad Indian Herald. Returning to America he continued to study Sanskrit at Harvard University for a year, contributed to various periodicals, and in 1882 produced his first novel, Mr Isaacs. This book had an immediate success, and its author’s promise was confirmed by the publication of Doctor Claudius: A True Story 1883. After a brief residence in New York and Boston, in 1883 he returned to Italy, where he made his permanent home. He also published the historical works, Ave Roma Immortalis 1898, Rulers of the South 1900 renamed Sicily, Calabria and Malta in 1904, and Gleanings from Venetian History 1905. 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.

Marietta, A Maid of Venice

1901. 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. Marietta begins: Very little was known about George, the Dalmatian, and the servants in the house of Angelo Beroviero, as well as the workmen of the latter’s glass furnace, called him Zorzi, distrusted him, suggested that he was probably a heretic, and did not hide their suspicion that he was in love with the master’s only daughter, Marietta. All these matters were against him, and people wondered why old Angelo kept the waif in his service, since he could have engaged any one out of a hundred young fellows of Murano, all belonging to the almost noble caste of the glassworkers, all good Christians, all trustworthy, and all ready to promise that the lovely Marietta should never make the slightest impression upon their respectfully petrified hearts. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Cecilia

1902. 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. Cecilia begins: Two men were sitting side by side on a stone bench in the forgotten garden of the Arcadian Society, in Rome; and it was in early spring, not long ago. Few people, Romans or strangers, ever find their way to that lonely and beautiful spot beyond the Tiber, niched in a hollow of the Janiculum below San Pietro in Montorio, where Beatrice Cenci sleeps. The Arcadians were men and women who loved poetry in an artificial time, took names of shepherds and shepherdesses, rhymed as best they could, met in pleasant places to recite their verses, and played that the world was young, and gentle, and sweet, and unpoisoned, just when it had declined to one of its recurring periods of vicious old age. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Man Overboard

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Whosoever Shall Offend

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: huge finger on the oaken board. ‘ That sick butterfly upstairs is tougher than I am. Forty seven days of fever, and nothing but bread and water ! Think of that, my Nanna ! Think of it! You or I would be consumed, one would not even see our shadows on the floor ! But he lives.’ ‘ If he eats the white beans he has finished living,’ remarked Nanna. A short silence followed, during which Paoluccio seemed to be meditating, and Nanna began to ladle the beans out into four deep earthenware bowls, roughly glazed and decorated with green and brown stripes. ‘ You are a jewel ; you are the joy of my heart,’ he observed thoughtfully, as Nanna placed his portion before him, covered it with oil, and scattered some chopped basil on the surface. ‘ Eat, my love,’ she said, and she cut a huge piece from a coarse loaf and placed it beside him on a folded napkin that looked remarkably clean in such surroundings, and emitted a pleasant odour of dried lavender blossoms. ‘ Where is the girl ? ‘ asked Paoluccio, stirring the mess and blowing upon it. As he spoke, the door was darkened, and the girl stood there with a large copper ‘ conca,’ the water jar of the Roman province, balanced on her head one of the most magnificent human beings on whom the sun of the Campagna ever shone. She was tall, and she bent her knees without moving her neck, in order to enter the door without first setting down the heavy vessel, THE DOOR WAS DARKENED, AND THE GIRL STOOD THERE WITH A LARGE COPPER ‘CONCA’…
‘ Her thick dark hair grew low on her forehead, almost black, save for the reddish chestnut lights where a few tiny ringlets curled themselves about her small and classic ears. Straight black eyebrows outlined the snow white forehead, and long brown lashes shaded the fearless eyes, that looked…

Fair Margaret

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: huge finger on the oaken board. ‘ That sick butterfly upstairs is tougher than I am. Forty seven days of fever, and nothing but bread and water ! Think of that, my Nanna ! Think of it! You or I would be consumed, one would not even see our shadows on the floor ! But he lives.’ ‘ If he eats the white beans he has finished living,’ remarked Nanna. A short silence followed, during which Paoluccio seemed to be meditating, and Nanna began to ladle the beans out into four deep earthenware bowls, roughly glazed and decorated with green and brown stripes. ‘ You are a jewel ; you are the joy of my heart,’ he observed thoughtfully, as Nanna placed his portion before him, covered it with oil, and scattered some chopped basil on the surface. ‘ Eat, my love,’ she said, and she cut a huge piece from a coarse loaf and placed it beside him on a folded napkin that looked remarkably clean in such surroundings, and emitted a pleasant odour of dried lavender blossoms. ‘ Where is the girl ? ‘ asked Paoluccio, stirring the mess and blowing upon it. As he spoke, the door was darkened, and the girl stood there with a large copper ‘ conca,’ the water jar of the Roman province, balanced on her head one of the most magnificent human beings on whom the sun of the Campagna ever shone. She was tall, and she bent her knees without moving her neck, in order to enter the door without first setting down the heavy vessel, THE DOOR WAS DARKENED, AND THE GIRL STOOD THERE WITH A LARGE COPPER ‘CONCA’…
‘ Her thick dark hair grew low on her forehead, almost black, save for the reddish chestnut lights where a few tiny ringlets curled themselves about her small and classic ears. Straight black eyebrows outlined the snow white forehead, and long brown lashes shaded the fearless eyes, that looked…

Soprano

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Adam Johnstone’s Son

Francis Marion Crawford 1854 1909 was an American writer noted for his many novels. He was born at Bagni di Lucca, Italy. In 1879 he went to India, where he studied Sanskrit and edited the Allahabad Indian Herald. Returning to America he continued to study Sanskrit at Harvard University for a year, contributed to various periodicals, and in 1882 produced his first novel, Mr Isaacs. This book had an immediate success, and its author’s promise was confirmed by the publication of Doctor Claudius: A True Story 1883. After a brief residence in New York and Boston, in 1883 he returned to Italy, where he made his permanent home. He also published the historical works, Ave Roma Immortalis 1898, Rulers of the South 1900 renamed Sicily, Calabria and Malta in 1904, and Gleanings from Venetian History 1905. 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.

Arethusa

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The Little City of Hope

Francis Marion Crawford 1854 1909 was an American writer noted for his many novels. He was born at Bagni di Lucca, Italy. In 1879 he went to India, where he studied Sanskrit and edited the Allahabad Indian Herald. Returning to America he continued to study Sanskrit at Harvard University for a year, contributed to various periodicals, and in 1882 produced his first novel, Mr Isaacs. This book had an immediate success, and its author’s promise was confirmed by the publication of Doctor Claudius: A True Story 1883. After a brief residence in New York and Boston, in 1883 he returned to Italy, where he made his permanent home. He also published the historical works, Ave Roma Immortalis 1898, Rulers of the South 1900 renamed Sicily, Calabria and Malta in 1904, and Gleanings from Venetian History 1905. 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.

Primadonna

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III The Leofric was three days out, and therefore halfway over the ocean, for she was a fast boat, but so far Griggs had not been called upon to hinder Mr. Van Torp from annoying Margaret. Mr. Van Torp had not been on deck; in fact, he had not been seen at all since he had disappeared into his cabin a quarter of an hour before the steamer had left the pier. There was a good deal of curiosity about him amongst the passengers, as there would have been about the famous Primadonna if she had not come punctually to every meal, and if she had not been equally regular in spending a certain number of hours on deck every day. At first every one was anxious to have what people call a ‘good look’ at her, because all the usual legends were already repeated about her wherever she went. It was said that she was really an ugly woman of thirty five who had been married to a Spanish count of twice that age, and that he had died leaving her penniless, so that she had been obliged to support herself by singing. Others were equally sure that she was a beautiful escaped nun, who had been forced to take the veil in a convent in Seville by cruel parents, but who had succeeded in getting herself carried off by a Polish nobleman disguised as a priest. Every one rememberedthe marvellous voice that used to sing so high above all the other nuns, behind the lattice on Sunday afternoons at the church of the Dominican Convent. That had been the voice of Margarita da Cordova, and she could never go back to Spain, for if she did the Inquisition would seize upon her, and she would be tortured and probably burnt alive to encourage the other nuns. This was very romantic, but unfortunately there was a man who said he knew the plain truth about her, and that she was just a good looking Irish girl who…

The Diva’s Ruby

A Sequel To Primadonna And Fair Margaret.

The White Sister

1909 novel . ”I cannot help it,’ said Filmore Durand quietly. ‘I paint what I see. If you are not pleased with the likeness, I shall be only too happy to keep it.’ The Marchesa protested. It was only a very small matter, she said, a something in the eyes, or in the angle of the left eyebrow, or in the turn of the throat; she could not tell where it was, but it gave her niece a little air of religious ecstasy that was not natural to her. If the master would only condescend to modify the expression the least bit, all would be satisfactory.’

The Undesirable Governess

Large print. Francis Marion Crawford 1854 1909 was an American writer noted for his many novels. He was born at Bagni di Lucca, Italy. In 1879 he went to India, where he studied Sanskrit and edited the Allahabad Indian Herald. Returning to America he continued to study Sanskrit at Harvard University for a year, contributed to various periodicals, and in 1882 produced his first novel, Mr Isaacs. This book had an immediate success, and its author’s promise was confirmed by the publication of Doctor Claudius: A True Story 1883. After a brief residence in New York and Boston, in 1883 he returned to Italy, where he made his permanent home. He also published the historical works, Ave Roma Immortalis 1898, Rulers of the South 1900 renamed Sicily, Calabria and Malta in 1904, and Gleanings from Venetian History 1905. 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.

The Screaming Skull

Large print. Francis Marion Crawford 1854 1909 was an American writer noted for his many novels. He was born at Bagni di Lucca, Italy. In 1879 he went to India, where he studied Sanskrit and edited the Allahabad Indian Herald. Returning to America he continued to study Sanskrit at Harvard University for a year, contributed to various periodicals, and in 1882 produced his first novel, Mr Isaacs. This book had an immediate success, and its author’s promise was confirmed by the publication of Doctor Claudius: A True Story 1883. After a brief residence in New York and Boston, in 1883 he returned to Italy, where he made his permanent home. He also published the historical works, Ave Roma Immortalis 1898, Rulers of the South 1900 renamed Sicily, Calabria and Malta in 1904, and Gleanings from Venetian History 1905. 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.

An American Politician

Francis Marion Crawford 1854 1909 was an American writer noted for his many novels. He was born at Bagni di Lucca, Italy. In 1879 he went to India, where he studied Sanskrit and edited the Allahabad Indian Herald. Returning to America he continued to study Sanskrit at Harvard University for a year, contributed to various periodicals, and in 1882 produced his first novel, Mr Isaacs. This book had an immediate success, and its author’s promise was confirmed by the publication of Doctor Claudius: A True Story 1883. After a brief residence in New York and Boston, in 1883 he returned to Italy, where he made his permanent home. He also published the historical works, Ave Roma Immortalis 1898, Rulers of the South 1900 renamed Sicily, Calabria and Malta in 1904, and Gleanings from Venetian History 1905. 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.

Katharine Lauderdale

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Taquisara

Francis Marion Crawford 1854 1909 was an American writer noted for his many novels. He was born at Bagni di Lucca, Italy. In 1879 he went to India, where he studied Sanskrit and edited the Allahabad Indian Herald. Returning to America he continued to study Sanskrit at Harvard University for a year, contributed to various periodicals, and in 1882 produced his first novel, Mr Isaacs. This book had an immediate success, and its author’s promise was confirmed by the publication of Doctor Claudius: A True Story 1883. After a brief residence in New York and Boston, in 1883 he returned to Italy, where he made his permanent home. He also published the historical works, Ave Roma Immortalis 1898, Rulers of the South 1900 renamed Sicily, Calabria and Malta in 1904, and Gleanings from Venetian History 1905. 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.

A Lady of Rome

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The Three Fates

1891. 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. The Three Fates begins: Jonah Wood was bitterly disappointed in his son. During five and twenty years he had looked in vain for the development of those qualities in George, which alone, in his opinion, could insure success. But though George could talk intelligently about the great movements of business in New York, it was clear by this time that he did not possess what his father called business instincts. The old man could have forgiven him his defective appreciation in the matter of dollars and cents, however, if he had shown the slightest inclination to adopt one of the regular professions; in other words, if George had ceased to waste his time in the attempt to earn money with his pen, and had submitted to becoming a scribe in a lawyer’s office, old Wood would have been satisfied. The Boy’s progress might have been slow, but it would have been sure. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

A Cigarette-Maker’s Romance / Khaled

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With the Immortals

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III It was a warm evening in the latter part of May. Augustus had said nothing of the result of the experiments he had been making during the past weeks, intending to surprise the three ladies by showing them the astounding results of his work all at once. The party sat at dinner in the vaulted hall and talked upon indifferent subjects. ‘ You seem to be revolutionising this part of the world, Augustus,’ said Diana. ‘I was walking on the rocks this afternoon with Gwendoline and it seemed as though you were preparing an immense show of fireworks.’ ‘ Nothing to speak of,’ answered her brother; ‘ I will show you after dinner.’ ‘ You have not succeeded in getting those people to dinner whom we were talking about the other day, have you?’ asked Gwendoline. ‘I thought the fireworks might be in their honour.’ ‘ No, I am afraid they won’t come for my asking. Perhaps if they got a word from you, my dear ‘ ‘ What oppressive weather !’ remarked Lady Brenda. ‘I am sure there is going to be a thunderstorm.’ ‘ I think so too,’ said Gwendoline. ‘ I always feel the thunder before it comes. Is not it very warm for May? We might almost go out after dinner.’ ‘ By all means, let us go out,’ assented Augustus. ‘I have something to show you. It is singularly oppressive, as you say and yet the weather seems fine enough.’ ‘Did it never strike you that your experiments might have an effect on the weather?’ asked Diana. ‘ If one could find a means to affect the weather,’ Augustus replied, ‘ one might produce rain and drought at will. No I do not believe it has gone as far as that. If the currents I have produced were being discharged through the air their action might make some very slight local change. But they are not. Just now they are running off into accumulators l…

The Upper Berth

Francis Marion Crawford 1854 1909 was an American writer noted for his many novels. He was born at Bagni di Lucca, Italy. In 1879 he went to India, where he studied Sanskrit and edited the Allahabad Indian Herald. Returning to America he continued to study Sanskrit at Harvard University for a year, contributed to various periodicals, and in 1882 produced his first novel, Mr Isaacs. This book had an immediate success, and its author’s promise was confirmed by the publication of Doctor Claudius: A True Story 1883. After a brief residence in New York and Boston, in 1883 he returned to Italy, where he made his permanent home. He also published the historical works, Ave Roma Immortalis 1898, Rulers of the South 1900 renamed Sicily, Calabria and Malta in 1904, and Gleanings from Venetian History 1905. 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.

Uncanny Tales

Uncanny Talesby F. Marion Crawford 1854 1909Seven CLASSIC Stories of Ghosts, Vampires, and WitchesPublisher’s Note to the NEW 2011 Kindle edition, 1/5/2011:To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the original print edition of Uncanny Tales, GideonFell Books, Ltd. has gone back to the source and restored to their original form the first and last stories in this collection. Later editions of this book presented abridged versions of both The Dead Smile and The Doll s Ghost, which deviated greatly from the author s original intention made evident in the 1911 First Edition. We have also included in this revised eBook both the original cover and front piece title page, so now this classic work of horror and fantasy containing the short story which both Dorothy L. Sayers AND Stephen King have called the greatest ghost story ever written : THE UPPER BERTH can be read as it first appeared in book form a century ago with all the thrills and chills are just as fresh a hundred years later. This is one of the all time CLASSIC collections of ghost stories by American author F. Marion Crawford. Crawford wrote dozens of novels many set in Ancient Rome, but today he is best remembered for his classic ghost stories, such as ‘THE UPPER BERTH’ considered by many the ‘greatest’ of ghost stories, and ‘MAN OVERBOARD!’, as well as the classic Gothic vampire tale, ‘FOR THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE.’ The other stories in this collection are likewise classic tales: ‘THE DEAD SMILE,’ ‘THE SCREAMING SKULL,’ ‘BY THE WATERS OF PARADISE,’ and ‘THE DOLL’S GHOST.’

For the Blood Is the Life

This is the complete 9 story collection.

The Complete Wandering Ghosts

For the first time, complete as the author intended them, here are all eight of F. Marion Crawford’s supernatural pieces, including the rare story ‘The King’s Messenger,’ as well as such classics as ‘The Upper Berth’ considered by many to be the finest ghost story ever written and many more. Also features a new introduction written especially for this volume by horror scholar Lee Weinstein.

Marion Darche

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1893 Original Publisher: Macmillan and co. Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Fiction / Romance / General Fiction / Romance / Contemporary History / General Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / American / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million Books. com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. Simon Darche was undoubtedly a bore. Since bores exist and there is no other name for them, the strong word has some right to pass into the English language. The old gentleman belonged to the unconscious and self complacent variety of the species, which is, on the whole, less unbearable than certain others. Generally speaking, it is true that people who are easily bored are bores themselves, but there are many very genuine and intolerable bores who go through life rejoicing and convinced that their conversation is a blessing and their advice a treasure to those who get it. Bores always have one or two friends. Simon Darche had found one in his daughter in law and he availed himself of her friendship to the utmost, so that it was amazing to see how much she could bear, for she was as constantly bored by him as other people, and appeared, indeed, tobe his favourite victim. But no one had ever heard her complain. Day after day she listened to his talk, smiled at his old stories, read to him, and seemed rather to seek his society than to avoid it. She was never apparently tired of hearing about John’s childhood and youth and she received the old man’s often repeated confidences concerning his own life with an ever renewed expression of sympathy. ‘ I simply could not stand it for a day! ‘ exclaimed Dolly occasionally. ‘ Why, he is worse…

Constantinople

With illustrations by Edward L. Weeks. This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1895 edition by Macmillan and Co., London.

Ave, Roma Immortalis

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The Rulers of the South

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: alive within them, the possession, body and soul, of a race that had mastered the only art they could never learn, the art of governing men ; and thereafter, recognizing once and for always their position as a part of their conquerors’ property, they worked for him and for Roman money as they had once laboured for glory and for themselves ; and in the slow decadence of genius in captivity, their supreme gifts were weakened by degrees, then scattered, and then lost. Henceforth the history of the south becomes for more than half a thousand years the story of the Romans, from the days of Appius Claudius who took Messina till after the times of Christian Constantine. The Romans The first Punic war, which was brought on by the appeal of the Mamertines to Rome, and lasted twenty two years, was the turning point in Roman history and the beginning of Rome’s empire. The first Punic war means the conquest of Sicily, and since Rome held Messina and was in alliance with Syracuse, the struggle took place chiefly in the western and southern part of the island. It is no easy matter to sketch briefly a contest in which the winner lost seven hundred ships and an untold number of men ; it is impossible to condense into a few pages anything more than the shortest possible account of the principal battles fought, and thisI shall endeavour to do with as much clearness as the difficult nature of the subject admits, henceforth calling places by their Latin names or by their modern ones. The war opened slowly. For more than two hundred years Rome and Carthage had maintained towards one another an attitude of distrust without hostility, and when the two great powers were at last in open opposition for the possession of Sicily, they fenced and manoeuvred for some time, as if testing their relativ…