The Love-Tragedy of an Irish PoetTHE PASSIONATE CRIMEBy E. Temple ThurstonAuthor of “The Open Window,” “The City of Beautiful Nonsense,” etc.A charming picture of old Ireland with its quaint superstitions, its mystery and its romance. A traveler in Ireland comes across some exquisite verses written by Anthony Sorel, a strange poet, and in his desire to learn the life-story of the man the traveler finds a hidden history of love and tragedy. It is the story of Anthony Sorel and Anna Quartermaine whose romantic love and its woeful ending is ever the theme of the stories of these simple country folk. With hushed voices they tell how Anthony’s determination to seek the ideal life sent him away in fear lest he should transgress in loving a woman of the world; of Anna’s love for him that bade her follow him to his hut in the mountains, where they met at twilight. Sorel believed her to be the fairy woman of his dreams and when he realized that the woman before him was Anna he was maddened at his failure to escape her charms and the terrible things that happened then haunt the place forever like a banshee never at rest. But so beautifully is the Irish country pictured, so carefully are the characters of the people drawn, that the reader seems to live in a different world—the world of dreams come true—peopled by men and women strangely endowed with intuitive understanding and a love for and a strong faith in the influence of the mystic world.Cloth, $1.30 NetThe New York Herald“The poverty, the idleness, the poetic feeling, the belief in fairies, the suspicion of strangers, are all convincingly shown. Moreover the story is one of genuine interest and the manner of its telling decidedly original.”The New York HeraldThe New York Globe“The story reveals Mr. Thurston’s fine and varied literary talent.”The New York GlobeThe Boston Herald“The enchantment of the story survives its telling.”The Boston HeraldThe New York World“A strange story with something of poetry in it, with much mysticism and such color as comes out of the gray mountain mist.”The New York WorldThe Brooklyn Eagle“Readers who like romance when it is really well done should not miss Mr. Thurston’s story.”The Brooklyn EagleThe Hartford Courant“It is beautifully worded and so full of the charm of that country that it might be called blank verse, rather than a novel in prose.”The Hartford CourantBy E. Temple ThurstonTHE PASSIONATE CRIME$1.30 NetD. APPLETON & COMPANY, Publishers, NEW YORK
The Love-Tragedy of an Irish Poet
THE PASSIONATE CRIMEBy E. Temple ThurstonAuthor of “The Open Window,” “The City of Beautiful Nonsense,” etc.A charming picture of old Ireland with its quaint superstitions, its mystery and its romance. A traveler in Ireland comes across some exquisite verses written by Anthony Sorel, a strange poet, and in his desire to learn the life-story of the man the traveler finds a hidden history of love and tragedy. It is the story of Anthony Sorel and Anna Quartermaine whose romantic love and its woeful ending is ever the theme of the stories of these simple country folk. With hushed voices they tell how Anthony’s determination to seek the ideal life sent him away in fear lest he should transgress in loving a woman of the world; of Anna’s love for him that bade her follow him to his hut in the mountains, where they met at twilight. Sorel believed her to be the fairy woman of his dreams and when he realized that the woman before him was Anna he was maddened at his failure to escape her charms and the terrible things that happened then haunt the place forever like a banshee never at rest. But so beautifully is the Irish country pictured, so carefully are the characters of the people drawn, that the reader seems to live in a different world—the world of dreams come true—peopled by men and women strangely endowed with intuitive understanding and a love for and a strong faith in the influence of the mystic world.Cloth, $1.30 NetThe New York Herald“The poverty, the idleness, the poetic feeling, the belief in fairies, the suspicion of strangers, are all convincingly shown. Moreover the story is one of genuine interest and the manner of its telling decidedly original.”The New York HeraldThe New York Globe“The story reveals Mr. Thurston’s fine and varied literary talent.”The New York GlobeThe Boston Herald“The enchantment of the story survives its telling.”The Boston HeraldThe New York World“A strange story with something of poetry in it, with much mysticism and such color as comes out of the gray mountain mist.”The New York WorldThe Brooklyn Eagle“Readers who like romance when it is really well done should not miss Mr. Thurston’s story.”The Brooklyn EagleThe Hartford Courant“It is beautifully worded and so full of the charm of that country that it might be called blank verse, rather than a novel in prose.”The Hartford CourantBy E. Temple ThurstonTHE PASSIONATE CRIME$1.30 Net
THE PASSIONATE CRIME
By E. Temple Thurston
Author of “The Open Window,” “The City of Beautiful Nonsense,” etc.
A charming picture of old Ireland with its quaint superstitions, its mystery and its romance. A traveler in Ireland comes across some exquisite verses written by Anthony Sorel, a strange poet, and in his desire to learn the life-story of the man the traveler finds a hidden history of love and tragedy. It is the story of Anthony Sorel and Anna Quartermaine whose romantic love and its woeful ending is ever the theme of the stories of these simple country folk. With hushed voices they tell how Anthony’s determination to seek the ideal life sent him away in fear lest he should transgress in loving a woman of the world; of Anna’s love for him that bade her follow him to his hut in the mountains, where they met at twilight. Sorel believed her to be the fairy woman of his dreams and when he realized that the woman before him was Anna he was maddened at his failure to escape her charms and the terrible things that happened then haunt the place forever like a banshee never at rest. But so beautifully is the Irish country pictured, so carefully are the characters of the people drawn, that the reader seems to live in a different world—the world of dreams come true—peopled by men and women strangely endowed with intuitive understanding and a love for and a strong faith in the influence of the mystic world.
Cloth, $1.30 Net
The New York Herald“The poverty, the idleness, the poetic feeling, the belief in fairies, the suspicion of strangers, are all convincingly shown. Moreover the story is one of genuine interest and the manner of its telling decidedly original.”The New York HeraldThe New York Globe“The story reveals Mr. Thurston’s fine and varied literary talent.”The New York GlobeThe Boston Herald“The enchantment of the story survives its telling.”The Boston HeraldThe New York World“A strange story with something of poetry in it, with much mysticism and such color as comes out of the gray mountain mist.”The New York WorldThe Brooklyn Eagle“Readers who like romance when it is really well done should not miss Mr. Thurston’s story.”The Brooklyn EagleThe Hartford Courant“It is beautifully worded and so full of the charm of that country that it might be called blank verse, rather than a novel in prose.”The Hartford Courant
The New York Herald“The poverty, the idleness, the poetic feeling, the belief in fairies, the suspicion of strangers, are all convincingly shown. Moreover the story is one of genuine interest and the manner of its telling decidedly original.”
The New York Herald
The New York Globe“The story reveals Mr. Thurston’s fine and varied literary talent.”
The New York Globe
The Boston Herald“The enchantment of the story survives its telling.”
The Boston Herald
The New York World“A strange story with something of poetry in it, with much mysticism and such color as comes out of the gray mountain mist.”
The New York World
The Brooklyn Eagle“Readers who like romance when it is really well done should not miss Mr. Thurston’s story.”
The Brooklyn Eagle
The Hartford Courant“It is beautifully worded and so full of the charm of that country that it might be called blank verse, rather than a novel in prose.”
The Hartford Courant
By E. Temple Thurston
THE PASSIONATE CRIME
$1.30 Net
D. APPLETON & COMPANY, Publishers, NEW YORK