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100 1 _aCrawford, F. Marion
_q(Francis Marion),
_d1854-1909
245 1 4 _aThe King's Messenger
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aProduced from the November 1907 issue of Cosmopolitan Magazine.
500 _aRelease date is 2025-04-21
508 _aRoger Frank
520 _a"The King's Messenger by F. Marion Crawford" is a short story written during the early 20th century. As a piece of literary fiction, it blends elements of the supernatural and the psychological, exploring themes of mortality, love, and fate. The book revolves around a mysterious dinner party and touches upon the topic of death, presenting it in a symbolic and almost gentle manner. The story centers on the narrator’s experience at a dinner party where the guests, especially the beautiful young Miss Lorna, display an unusual familiarity with each other. As the thirteenth guest arrives—an enigmatic and compelling man—Miss Lorna confides in the narrator that she will be leaving with this man that very night. Through their conversations, it becomes clear that the newcomer embodies more than he seems, his presence casting a strange spell over the group. After dinner, Miss Lorna leaves with the man, and it is only afterwards that the narrator learns from his hostess that the guest is none other than Death himself—the true “King’s Messenger.” The narrative is ultimately revealed to be a dream, which gains poignant significance when the narrator receives a real-life message of Lorna’s sudden passing, merging dream and reality in a meditation on life, love, and mortality. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: International Magazine Company, 1907
653 _aShort stories
653 _aSupernatural -- Fiction
653 _aYouth and death -- Fiction
700 1 _aSnapp, Frank
830 0 _aProduced from the November 1907 issue of Cosmopolitan Magazine.
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/sim_cosmopolitan_1907-11_44_1/page/88
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75905
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