Khaled, A Tale of ArabiaCrawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
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Khaled, A Tale of Arabia
Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
Arabian Peninsula -- Fiction
_SATURDAY REVIEW_--"With the exception of 'Saracinesca,' his
most consistent work, Mr. Crawford has not written anything
so good as his last novel 'Greifenstein.'"
_ACADEMY_--"During the whole of his literary career Mr.
Marion Crawford has produced nothing quite so powerful as one
or two of the situations in 'Greifenstein.'"
SANT' ILARIO.
_ATHENÆUM_--"The plot is skilfully concocted, and the
interest is sustained to the end. The various events,
romantic, and even sensational, follow naturally and neatly,
and the whole is a very clever piece of work."
_SCOTSMAN_--"The book is full of passages of remarkable
power. A reader will find it hard to decide whether this is
not the best of Mr. Crawford's novels."
A CIGARETTE-MAKER'S ROMANCE.
_OXFORD MAGAZINE_--"The idea of the story is original, the
characters well drawn, and the interest sustained to the very
last page. That Mr. Crawford, having a good story to tell,
should tell it well, was only to be expected."
_GLOBE_--"We are inclined to think this the best of Mr.
Marion Crawford's stories.... His art is here at its best,
and those who read his book will feel grateful to him for its
keen humanity."
NOVELS BY ROLF BOLDREWOOD.
New and Uniform Edition. Crown 8vo. Cloth. 3s. 6d. each.
=ROBBERY UNDER ARMS.=
A STORY OF LIFE AND ADVENTURE IN THE BUSH AND IN THE
GOLD-FIELDS OF AUSTRALIA.
=GUARDIAN=--"A singularly spirited and stirring tale of
Australian life, chiefly in the remoter settlements....
Altogether it is a capital story, full of wild adventure and
startling incidents, and told with a genuine simplicity and
quiet appearance of truth, as if the writer were really
drawing upon his memory rather than his imagination."
=SPECTATOR=--"We have nothing but praise for this story. Of
adventure of the most stirring kind there is, as we have
said, abundance. But there is more than this. The characters
are drawn with great skill. Every one of the gang of
bushrangers is strongly individualised. This is a book of no
common literary force."
=WORLD=--"An uncommonly good thing.... The book, in short,
has the natural touch, both of place and person, on every
page."
=MORNING POST=--"As a picture of the earlier days of our
Australian Colonies, and as an absorbing story, 'Robbery
under Arms' has few equals."
=GRAPHIC=--"That Mr. Boldrewood knows his subject through and
through is as certain as his picture of the breaking-out of
the first gold fever in Australia is the best ever written."
=THE SQUATTER'S DREAM.=
=THE MINER'S RIGHT.=
A TALE OF THE AUSTRALIAN GOLD-FIELDS.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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