Marion Polk Angellotti

Broschiertes Buch

The Firefly of France

Beschreibung

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The restaurant of the Hotel St. Ives seems, as I look back on it, an odd spot to have served as stage wings for a melodrama, pure and simple. Yet a melodrama did begin there. No other word fits the case. The inns of the Middle Ages, which, I believe, reeked with trap-doors and cutthroats, pistols and poisoned daggers, offered nothing weirder than my experience, with its first scene set beneath this roof. The food there is superperfect, every luxury surrounds you, millionaires and traveling princes are your fellow-guests. Still, sooner than pass another night there, I would sleep airily in Central Park, and if I had a friend seeking New York quarters, I would guide him toward some other place.

Autor

Marion Polk Angellotti was an American author. She contributed short stories to pulp periodicals like Adventure, including many about 14th-century condottiere John Hawkwood. Her work The Firefly of France, based on the biography of Georges Guynemer, was turned into a film. Her other novels include Sir John Hawkwood: A Tale of the White Company in Italy, The Three Bags, The Burgundian: A Tale of Old France, and Harlette (a retelling of her short tale "When the Devil Ruled," which appeared in the April 1913 issue of The Smart Set magazine). Marion Polk Angellotti, the daughter of judge Frank M. Angellotti and his wife, Emma Cornelia Cearley (sometimes mistranscribed as Clearey), worked as a volunteer canteen worker for the American Red Cross from 1918 to 1919, including at an evacuation hospital during the Saint Michel offensive and with the Army of Occupation in Germany. She died in April 1979, at the age of 91, and was interred at Bellevue Memorial Park in Ontario, California.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 360g
• ISBN-13: 9781421801780
• ISBN-10: 1421801787
• Artikelnr.: 20980725