The complete online text of Don Orsino by Francis Marion Crawford.

The verdict of literary historians and academic critics upon the fiction writers of the years between 1883 and 1909--the period when Francis Marion Crawford was writing novels--has long since been rendered in favor of William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, an...

Phyllis R. (Constantino) Orsino June 21, 2005 Phyllis R. (Constantino) Orsino, 97, a native of Highland, NY and Syracuse resident for over 50 years, died Tuesday at Rosewood Heights. She was a homemaker most of her life. Surviving are her daughter,...

Maurice Cowling, who died last week aged 78, was the epitome of the English don. Mischievous and sometimes downright offensive, Cowling was certainly no saint. But that was part of his appeal. Unlike the academic clones that the higher education system now spawns, he...