Fantazius Mallare: A Mysterious Oath

<p>Publisher: Covici-McGee Publication date: 1922 Subjects: Fantasy fiction, American Fiction / Fantasy / General Fiction / Fantasy / Epic Fiction / Romance / Gothic Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.</p>

Ben Hecht

Literature & Fiction

Frugoli & Taylor

Julius and Dawn know full well that they are merely actors and the world is their stage. And their audience, though they are shirking the spotlight these days. They've written themselves some juicy parts and played in some fantastic playgrounds. Action, adventure, skin, tears, butterfly gardens, prison chapels. It all seems so ageless and timeless. They can't for the life of them imagine an ending.

Not Fade Away

Taylor, K. M.

<p>Aimee Crocker, America's most intriguing, entertaining and controversial heiress was born during the Civil War and made headlines around the world from the dawn of the Gilded Age until she died in 1941. She was the daughter of tycoon E.B. Crocker and niece of Charles Crocker, who, together with Collis Huntington, Mark Hopkins and Leland Stanford built the western half of the Transcontinental Railroad, the greatest transportation line the world had ever built. According to K. M. Taylor, author of the soon-to-be-released Aimee Crocker s Refined Vaudeville: Around the World with America s Most Intriguing Heiress it was this monumental achievement living inside Aimee Crocker that afforded her a life of bold risk-taking. Crocker was known from San Francisco and New York, to London, Paris and Tokyo for her extravagant parties, her decade of hair-raising adventures while living in the mysterious Far East, and for her collection of husbands, adopted children, snakes, pearls, Buddhas and tattoos. Crocker was given two official titles: Princess Palaikalani Bliss of Heaven by King David Kalakaua when he gave her one of his Hawaiian islands, and Princess Galitzine the day that she married her fifth and final husband when she was 61 and he was 26. Aimee Crocker s Refined Vaudeville contains highlights, in Aimee s own words, of a harrowing honeymoon train crash in California, a blood-curdling escape down a jungle river, an abduction by a Dyak prince, a poisoning in Hong Kong, a murder attempt by knife-throwing servants in Shanghai, three weeks in the harem of Bhurlana, a search for Kaivalya (Liberation) at the cave of the Great Yogin Bhojaveda in Poona, and two bizarre sensual experiences, one with an Indian boa constrictor and another with a Chinese violin in the house of the ivory panels. Crocker, the world's first celebutante, was known also for her relationships with actors, painters, literary figures, princes, a king, a maharaja, a chieftain, a Bowery Underworld figure, a legendary occultist, and more than one opera singer. She was a jet setter before there were jets, a great entertainer before there was a movie industry, and a liberated woman before the 19th Amendment. She was, in Taylor's words, both completely of her time, a product of headstrong genetics, a boisterous environment, and a Gilded Age in western civilization, and far ahead of her time an individualized, free-thinking, self-created, citizen of the world.</p>

Aimee Crocker's Refined Vaudeville

K.M. Taylor & Aimee Crocker

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Fantazius Mallare: A Mysterious Oath

Not Fade Away

Aimee Crocker's Refined Vaudeville