Saracinesca Summary
Francis Marion Crawford

SARACINESCA. CHAPTER I. In the year 1865 Rome was still in a great measure its old self.  It had not then acquired that modern air which is now beginning to pervade it.  The Corso had not be... Read more

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 ren... Read more