Автор:F. Marion Crawford Год: 2010 Издание:Книга по Требованию Страниц: 150 ISBN: 9781438534619 F Marion Crawford was born in 1854 in Italy. He lived in New England and in 1879 he moved to India. He later returned to the United States to study Sanskrit at Harvard. He wrote over 40 romances, but is best known for his stories of horror and the occult. This romance begins," The inner room of a tobacconist's shop is not perhaps the spot which a writer of fiction would naturally choose as the theatre of his play, nor does the inventor of pleasant romances, of stirring incident, or moving love-tales feel himself instinctively inclined to turn to Munich as to the city of his dreams. On the other hand, it is by no means certain that, if the choice of a stage for our performance were offered to the most contented among us, we should be satisfied to speak our parts and go through our actor's business upon the boards of this world. Some would prefer to take their properties, their player's crowns and robes, their aspiring expressions and their finely expressed aspirations before the...
