Fair Margaret: A Portrait

by F. Marion Crawford

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

396 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

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

[Dorcas · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm a little reluctant to rate this because it is so clearly a trilogy that the book doesn't even attempt to conclude at the last page. I'll be going straight into the sequel (or part two) straight away because I feel like I haven't finished.

However, how do I feel about part 1? It's promising. Basically it's about the rise of a primadonna from her humble beginnings and those who helped and warned her along the way. Also two love interests. The son of an aging primadonna and a rich Greek financier.

I'm invested enough to jump straight into the next book