Zoroaster

by F. Marion Crawford

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245 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1885

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Shahin]

hELLO.I JUST WANT TO READ THAT BOOK BY CRAWFORD MARION CALLED ZOROASTER

[Mikael · Rating 1 out of 5]

Upon seeing the title of this book I expected something to do with the Zoroastrian faith. I was disappointed by what turned out to be a romance. The descriptions of events and places and people in the book are insanely long and the romance is a bit dull.

[Stuart Aken · Rating 2 out of 5]

Too wordy and long-winded for me, this one. Huge descriptive passages with enormous detail about settings and objects, etc., but too little about the people. It's the people I care about in fiction. I can gather facts from nonfiction.