Will Levington Comfort

Gebundenes Buch

Fate Knocks at the Door

Beschreibung

MANY years have passed since my wife and I left the United States to pay our first visit to England. We were provided with letters of introduction, as a matter of course. Among them there was a letter which had been written for us by my wife's brother. It presented us to an English gentleman who held a high rank on the list of his old and valued friends. "You will become acquainted with Mr. George Germaine," my brother-in-law said, when we took leave of him, "at a very interesting period of his life. My last news of him tells me that he is just married. I know nothing of the lady, or of the circumstances under which my friend first met with her. But of this I am certain: married or single, George Germaine will give you and your wife a hearty welcome to England, for my sake." The day after our arrival in London, we left our letter of introduction at the house of Mr. Germaine.

Autor

Will Levington Comfort was a writer from the United States best known for his adventure tales, including Apache. Three of Comfort's writings have used as the basis for feature films. Somewhere in Sonora, based on his novel Somewhere South of Sonora, was remade in 1933 and starred John Wayne. The Will Levington Comfort Letters (2 volumes, 1920-21) are about theosophy and impacted many people, including Alice Bailey. Comfort connected Dane Rudhyar, a composer and astrologer, to Marc Edmund Jones, who introduced him to the study of astrology. Rudhyar married Comfort's secretary, Maria Contento. Comfort also had an impact on painters Mabel Alvarez and Agnes Pelton. Comfort attended Detroit public schools before enrolling at Albion College in Albion, Michigan. He previously worked as a newspaper reporter in Detroit, Michigan, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Kentucky. He was a member of the 5th US Cavalry during the Spanish-American War. Later, in 1899, he became a war correspondent. He visited the Philippines and China while working as a correspondent. In 1904, he also traveled to the Russian Empire and Japan as a correspondent. He later lived in Highland Park, a suburb of Los Angeles, California. During this era of his life, when he was interested with spiritual things, he published two periodicals: The Glass Hive and the Reconstruction Letter.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Seitenzahl: 428
• Erscheinungstermin: Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 745g
• ISBN-13: 9781421897868
• ISBN-10: 1421897865
• Artikelnr.: 23486283