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F. Marion Crawford

Born

in Bagni di Lucca (then Granducato di Toscana), Italy

August 02, 1854

Died

April 09, 1909

Website

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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, Calab ...more

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Average rating: 3.9 · 17,568 ratings · 2,175 reviews · 1,348 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Upper Berth 3.71 avg rating — 704 ratings — published 1894 — 77 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Screaming Skull 3.49 avg rating — 438 ratings — published 1908 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	For The Blood Is The Life: An Uncanny Gothic Vampire Tale 3.67 avg rating — 341 ratings — published 1911 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Wandering Ghosts by F. Marion Crawford, Lee Weinstein (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.78 avg rating — 293 ratings — published 1911 — 123 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Doll's Ghost 3.61 avg rating — 289 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	1890'larda İstanbul by F. Marion Crawford, Şeniz Türkömer (Translator), Edwin Lord Weeks (Illustrator) 3.77 avg rating — 252 ratings — published 1893 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Little City of Hope: A Christmas Story 3.69 avg rating — 225 ratings — published 1907 — 71 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dead Smile 3.49 avg rating — 195 ratings — published 1899 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Witch Of Prague & Other Stories by F. Marion Crawford, David Stuart Davies (Series Editor) 3.77 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Khaled 3.87 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 1891 — 128 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“A cool breeze stirred my hair at that moment, as the night wind began to come down from the hills, but it felt like a breath from another world.”
― Francis Marion Crawford, For the Blood is the Life and Other Stories

tags: night, wind

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“I have seen an evil thing this night,' he said; 'I have seen how the dead drink the blood of the living. And the blood is the life.”
― Francis Marion Crawford, For the Blood is the Life and Other Stories

tags: blood, horror, vampire

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“What has life given me? The beginning is fire, the end is a heap of ashes, and between the end and the beginning lies all the pain in the world.”
― Francis Marion Crawford

tags: life, life-and-death, the-dead-smile, weariness

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October 2015 Short Story Poll

1936, At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft, *128 pages

34 votes, 26.6%

1934, The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain, 116 pages

29 votes, 22.7%

1952, Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, 109 pages

23 votes, 18.0%

1953, A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O'Connor, 25 pages Title Story

18 votes, 14.1%

1941, Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, 98 pages

12 votes, 9.4%

1865, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Nikolai Leskov, 88 pages

5 votes, 3.9%

1936, Double Indemnity by James M. Cain, 115 pages

3 votes, 2.3%

1886, The Upper Berth by Francis Marion Crawford, 48 pages

2 votes, 1.6%

1897, Liza of Lambeth by W. Somerset Maugham, 128 pages

2 votes, 1.6%

128 total votes

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