Author : Fergus Hume
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
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Release : 2018-07-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3337600816
A Creature of the Night
Fergus Hume
A Creature Of The Night An Italian Enigma
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A Creature of the Night
Fergus Hume
Author : Fergus Hume
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1505664985
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"This story is worthy of the days of the Borgias and their poisons. A woman, emerging from a tomb at midnight, is followed by an Englishman out for a stroll. She disappears in an old, deserted palace, mounts to the top story, and there meets a man. dressed, like herself, in mediaeval costume. A quarrel ensues, and the Englishman witnesses the death of this man by poisoned wine after the manner of the great Lucrezia. In the morning he wakes up in a public square, and meets, a few nights later, the fair poisoner at the opera." -Book Chat, Volume 7 [1892] "An ingenuous and theatrical rather than genuinely dramatic story by Mr. Fergus Hume. The author admires the fantastic romances of Theophile Gautier and his school, and he has an easy and agreeable style of writing. The scene of the story is laid in Italy, at Verona, but neither the local color nor the characters are thoroughly defined. Mr. Hume's Italy is the Italy of the tourist who is not independent of his Baedeker; he has the conventional idea of Italians as made up of Renaissance tyranny and guile, slightly modernized by Neapolitan lazzaronism. The rather numerous errors in the incidental phrases of Italian may be partly the fault of the printer. The book is readable and yet sensational." -Literary World [1893]
A Creature of the Night: An Italian Enigma
Fergus Hume
Author : Fergus Hume
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 139 pages
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Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066232146
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'A Creature of the Night: An Italian Enigma' is a mystery-supernatural novel by Fergus Hume. The story follows the narrator, a member of the Cranstons family, who travels to Italy with a few hundred pounds and a dream of pursuing an operatic career. He settles in Milan and takes singing lessons from Maestro Angello, who later goes to Verona for a change of scenery. The novel sets the scene for a gripping mystery with supernatural elements, as the narrator uncovers secrets about Angello's past and encounters a mysterious and possibly dangerous creature of the night.
A Creature of the Night
Fergus Hume
Author : Fergus Hume
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0243279655
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Excerpt from A Creature of the Night: An Italian Enigma But Verona! Ah, it was truly delightful, that sleepy town lying so peacefully on the banks of the rapid Adige, dreaming amid the riotous present of the splen did past, when Can, Grande held his brilliant court, and received as an honoured guest the great poet Dante, exiled by ungrateful Florence. The city of the gay rhymer Catullus, merry lover of Lesbia, who wept more tears over her sparrow than she did over her poet. The city of Romeo and Juliet, star-crossed lovers as they were, who were recompensed for their short, unhappy lives by gaining immortality from the pen of Shakespeare as types of eternal love and eternal constancy, for the encouragement of all succeeding youths and maidens of later generations. Yes, indeed, with all these memories, historical and poetical, Verona was a pleasant place. In which to idle away a summer, so I thanked the kind. Gods for my good fortune and enjoyed myself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A CREATURE of the NIGHT
Fergus Hume
Author : Fergus Hume
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1973283832
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I think it is Lord Beaconsfield who, in one of his brilliant stories, makes the clever observation that "adventures are to the adventurous," and certainly he who seeks for adventures even in this prosaic nineteenth century will surely succeed in his quest. Fate leads him, chance guides him, luck assists him, and although the adventure supplied by this trinity of circumstances may be neither so dangerous nor so picturesque as in the time of Borgia or Lazun, still it will probably be interesting, which after all is something to be grateful for in this eminently commonplace age of facts and figures. Still, even he who seeks not to prove the truth of Disraeli's aphorism, may, after the principle of Mahomet's mountain, have the adventure come to him, without the trouble of looking for it, and this was my case at Verona in the summer of 18--.The Cranstons were always a poor family, that is, as regards money, although they certainly could not complain of a lack of ancestors; and when it came to my turn to represent the race, I found that my lately deceased father had left me comparatively nothing. Not having any fixed income, I therefore could not live without doing something to earn my bread; and not having any business capacity, I foresaw failure would be my lot in mercantile enterprise. I was not good-looking enough to inveigle a wealthy heiress into matrimony; and as, after a survey of my possessions, I found I had nothing but a few hundred pounds and an excellent baritone voice, I made up my mind to use the former in cultivating the latter with a view to an operatic career.Italy, living on the traditions of the days of Rossini, of Donizetti and of Bellini, has still the reputation of possessing excellent singing-masters, so to Italy I went with a hopeful heart and a light purse, and established myself at Milan, where I took lessons, in singing, from Maestro Angello. Milan is a detestable city, hot and arid in summer, cold and humid in winter; and as a year after I arrived in the land of song the end of spring was unusually disagreeable, Maestro Angello went to Verona for a change of air, and thither I followed him with no small pleasure at escaping from that dreary commercial capital of the north which has all the disagreeables of Italian life without any of the compensating advantages of romance and beauty.But Verona! ah, it was truly delightful, that sleepy town lying so peacefully on the banks of the rapid Adige, dreaming amid the riotous present of the splendid past, when Can Grande held his brilliant court, and received as an honoured guest the great poet Dante, exiled by ungrateful Florence. The city of the gay rhymer Catullus, merry lover of Lesbia, who wept more tears over her sparrow than she did over her poet. The city of Romeo and Juliet, star-crossed lovers as they were, who were recompensed for their short, unhappy lives by gaining immortality from the pen of Shakespeare as types of eternal love and eternal constancy, for the encouragement of all succeeding youths and maidens of later generations. Yes, indeed, with all these memories, historical and poetical, Verona was a pleasant place in which to idle away a summer, so I thanked the kind gods for my good fortune and enjoyed myself.Not that I was idle. By no means! Maestro Angello kept me hard at work at exercises and scales, so I studied industriously most of the day and wandered about most of the night in the soft, cool moonlight, when Verona looked much more romantic than in the garish blaze of the Italian sun.It was on one of these nights that an adventure happened to me, an adventure in which I was involved by the merest chance, although I confess that the vice of curiosity had a good deal to do with my entanglement therein.
A Creature of the Night
Fergus Hume
Author : Fergus Hume
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 122 pages
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Release : 2020-07-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752352115
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The Publishers Weekly
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1224 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCAL:B4171016
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Book News
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : American literature
ISBN : CORNELL:31924091816458
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The International Bookseller
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044092540863
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International Bookseller
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433069135121
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Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace 1840s–1940s
David Carter,Roger Osborne
Author : David Carter,Roger Osborne
Publisher : Sydney University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781743325797
Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace 1840s–1940s by David Carter,Roger Osborne Pdf
Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace 1840s–1940s explores how Australian writers and their works were present in the United States before the mid twentieth century to a much greater degree than previously acknowledged. Drawing on fresh archival research and combining the approaches of literary criticism, print culture studies and book history, David Carter and Roger Osborne demonstrate that Australian writing was transnational long before the contemporary period. In mapping Australian literature’s connections to British and US markets, their research challenges established understandings of national, imperial and world literatures. Carter and Osborne examine how Australian authors, editors and publishers engaged productively with their American counterparts, and how American readers and reviewers responded to Australian works. They consider the role played by British publishers and agents in taking Australian writing to America, and how the international circulation of new literary genres created new opportunities for novelists to move between markets. Some of these writers, such as Christina Stead and Patrick White, remain household names; others who once enjoyed international fame, such as Dale Collins and Alice Grant Rosman, have been largely forgotten. The story of their books in America reveals how culture, commerce and copyright law interacted to create both opportunities and obstacles for Australian writers.
Book Chat
William George Jordan,Adr Schade van Westrum
Author : William George Jordan,Adr Schade van Westrum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : American literature
ISBN : NYPL:33433066595772
Book Chat by William George Jordan,Adr Schade van Westrum Pdf
Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature, Volume 57, July to December 1892
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UOM:39015084434425
Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature, Volume 57, July to December 1892 by Anonim Pdf
The Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : IND:30000111788042
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The Annual American Catalogue
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015071097243