Andrew Lang Books In Order

Chronicles of Pantouflia Books In Order

  1. Prince Prigio (1889)
  2. Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia (1893)

Rainbow Fairy Books Books In Order

  1. The Blue Fairy Book (1889)
  2. The Red Fairy Book (1890)
  3. The Green Fairy Book (1892)
  4. The Yellow Fairy Book (1894)
  5. The Pink Fairy Book (1897)
  6. The Gray Fairy Book (1900)
  7. The Violet Fairy Book (1901)
  8. The Orange Fairy Book (1906)
  9. The Lilac Fairy Book (1910)

Novels

  1. The Library (1881)
  2. The Mark of Cain (1886)
  3. He (1887)
  4. Grass of Parnassus (1888)
  5. Old Friends (1890)
  6. The World’s Desire (1890)
  7. A Monk of Fife (1896)
  8. Parson Kelly (1899)

Collections

  1. In the Wrong Paradise (1886)
  2. The Gold of Fairnilee (1888)
  3. Dreams and Ghosts (1897)
  4. Tales of Troy and Greece (2018)

Novellas

  1. The Princess Nobody (1884)
  2. The House of Strange Stories (1886)

Non fiction

  1. Ballads and Lyrics of Old France (1872)
  2. XXII. Ballades in Blue China (1880)
  3. X*XII. Ballades in Blue China (1881)
  4. Helen of Troy (1882)
  5. Custom and Myth (1884)
  6. Rhymes a la Mode (1885)
  7. Letters to Dead Authors (1886)
  8. Books and Bookmen (1887)
  9. Myth, Ritual, and Religion (1887)
  10. Letters on Literature (1889)
  11. Lost Leaders (1889)
  12. Life, Letters, and Diaries of Sir Stafford Northcote, First Earl of Iddesleigh (1890)
  13. Angling Sketches (1891)
  14. Essays in Little (1891)
  15. Homer and the Epic (1893)
  16. St. Andrews (1893)
  17. Ban and Arriere Ban (1894)
  18. Co*ck Lane and Common Sense (1894)

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Andrew Lang Books Overview

Prince Prigio

Andrew Lang 1844 1912 was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon made a reputation as one of the ablest and most versatile writers of the day. Lang was one of the founders of the study of ‘Psychical Research,’ and his other writings on anthropology include The Book of Dreams and Ghosts 1897, Magic and Religion 1901 and The Secret of the Totem 1905. He was a Homeric scholar of conservative views. Other works include Homer and the Epic 1893; a prose translation of The Homeric Hymns 1899, with literary and mythological essays in which he draws parallels between Greek myths and other mythologies; and Homer and his Age 1906. He also wrote Ballades in Blue China 1880 and Rhymes la Mode 1884. Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books are a twelve book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources who had collected them originally, made them an immensely influential collection, especially as he used foreign language sources, giving many of these tales their first appearance in English.

The Blue Fairy Book

The Blue Fairy Book , the first of twelve in Andrew Lang’s Coloured Fairy Book series, was originally published in 1889. This edition contains all 37 of the original stories and all 127 of the original black and white illustrations. The collections were specifically intended for children, and consequently edited for that end. When Andrew began publishing these books there were almost no English fairy tale books in circulation. The series proved of great influence in children s literature, and inspired a host of imitators. The series also proved to be an inspiration to J.R. Tolken and his Middle Earth collection of novels. This book includes the stories: The Bronze Ring; Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess; East of the Sun and West of the Moon; The Yellow Dwarf; Little Red Riding Hood; The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood; Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper; Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp; The Tale of a Youth who set out to learn what Fear was; Rumpelstiltzkin; Beauty and The Beast; The Master Maid; Why the Sea is Salt; The Master Cat; or, Puss in Boots; Felicia and the Pot of Pinks; The White Cat; The Water Lily. The Gold Spinners.; The Terrible Head; The Story of Pretty Goldilocks; The History of Whittington; The Wonderful Sheep; Little Thumb; The Forty Thieves; Hansel and Grettel; Snow White and Rose Red; The Goose Girl; Toads andDiamonds; Prince Darling; Blue Beard; Trusty John; The Brave Little Tailor; A Voyage to Lilliput; The Princess on the Glass Hill; The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou; The History of Jack The Giant Killer; The Black Bull of Norroway; and The Red Etin.

The Red Fairy Book

The Red Fairy Book‘, the second in Andrew Lang’s ‘Coloured’ Fairy Book series, was originally published in 1890. This edition contains all thirty seven of the original stories and all ninety nine of the original illustrations. The collections were specifically intended for children, and consequently edited for that end. When Andrew began publishing these books there were almost no English fairy tale books in circulation. The series proved of great influence in children’s literature, and inspired a host of imitators. The series also proved to be an inspiration to J.R. Tolken and his Middle Earth collection of novels. The stories included in this book are: The Twelve Dancing Princesses; The Princess Mayblossom; Soria Moria Castle; The Death of Koschei the Deathless; The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen; The Master Thief; Brother and Sister; Princess Rosette; The Enchanted Pig; The Norka; The Wonderful Birch; Jack and the Beanstalk; The Little Good Mouse; Graciosa and Percinet; The Three Princesses of Whiteland; The Voice of Death; The Six Sillies; Kari Woodengown; Drakestail; The Ratcatcher; The True History of Little Goldenhood; The Golden Branch; The Three Dwarfs; Dapplegrim; The Enchanted Canary; The Twelve Brothers; Rapunzel; The Nettle Spinner; Farmer Weatherbeard; Mother Holle; Minnikin; Bushy Bride; Snowdrop; The Golden Goose; The Seven Foals; The Marvellous Musician; and The Story of Sigurd.

The Green Fairy Book

Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books constitute a twelve book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources, who had collected them originally with the notable exception of Madame d’Aulnoy, made them an immensely influential collection, especially as he used foreign language sources, giving many of these tales their first appearance in English. As acknowledged in the prefaces, although Lang himself made most of the selections, his wife and other translators did a large portion of the translating and telling of the actual stories. ‘The irony of Lang’s life and work is that although he wrote for a profession literary criticism; fiction; poems; books and articles on anthropology, mythology, history, and travel…
he is best recognized for the works he did not write.’ Lang’s urge to collect and publish fairy tales was rooted in his own experience with the folk and fairy tales of his home territory along the English Scottish border. When Lang began his efforts, he ‘was fighting against the critics and educationists of the day,’ who judged the traditional tales’ ‘unreality, brutality, and escapism to be harmful for young readers, while holding that such stories were beneath the serious consideration of those of mature age.’

The Yellow Fairy Book

This book has been especially re published to raise funds for The Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity By buying this book you will be donating to this great charity that does so much good for ill children and which also enables families to stay together in times of crisis. And what better way to help children than to buy a book of fairy tales. Some have not been seen in print or heard for over a century. 33 of the Publisher’s profit from the sale of this book will be donated to the GOSH Children’s Charity. There was a time when the president of the Folk Lore Society believed it was not acceptable for the editors of the day, Mr Andrew Lang and Mr. Joseph Jacobs, to publish fairy books. Their reply was that they did not see any harm in it, and they were ready to ‘put themselves on their country,’ and be tried by a jury of children. As to whether there are really any fairies or not, that is a difficult question. The Editor never saw any himself, but he knew several people who have seen them in the Highlands and heard their music. If ever you are in Nether Lochaber, go to the Fairy Hill, and you may hear the music yourself, as grown up people have done, but you must go on a fine day. Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks, the old Egyptians, the Hindus, and even the Red Indians, and is it likely, if there are no fairies, that so many different peoples would have seen and heard them? This volume contains Russian, German, French, Icelandic, Red Indian, and other stories. The Editor cannot say ‘good bye’ without advising them, as they pursue their studies, to read The Rose and the Ring, by the late Mr. Thackeray. He believes this book is quite indispensable in every child’s library, and parents should be urged to purchase it at the first opportunity, as without it no education is complete, not to mention the benefit an ill child at the Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital will derive from it, both literally and financially.

The Pink Fairy Book

The Pink Fairy Book‘, the fifth in Andrew Lang’s ‘Coloured’ Fairy Book series, was originally published in 1897. This edition contains all 41 of the original stories and all 69 of the original black and white illustrations. The collections were specifically intended for children, and consequently edited for that end. When Andrew began publishing these books there were almost no English fairy tale books in circulation. The series proved of great influence in children’s literature, and inspired a host of imitators. The series also proved to be an inspiration to J.R. Tolken and his Middle Earth collection of novels. This book contains these stories: The Cat’s Elopement; How the Dragon Was Tricked; The Goblin and the Grocer; The House in the Wood; Uraschimataro and the Turtle; The Slaying of the Tanuki; The Flying Trunk; The Snow man; The Shirt collar; The Princess in the Chest; The Three Brothers; The Snow queen; The Fir tree; Hans, the Mermaid’s Son; Peter Bull; The Bird ‘Grip’; Snowflake; I Know What I Have Learned; The Cunning Shoemaker; The King Who Would Have a Beautiful Wife; Catherine and Her Destiny; How the Hermit Helped to Win the King’s Daughter; The Water of Life; The Wounded Lion; The Man Without a Heart; The Two Brothers; Master and Pupil; The Golden Lion; The Sprig of Rosemary; The White Dove; The Troll’s Daughter; Esben and the Witch; Princess Minon minette; Maiden Bright eye; The Merry Wives; King Lindorm; The Jackal; the Dove; and the Panther; The Little Hare; The Sparrow with the Slit Tongue; The Story of Ciccu; and Don Giovanni De La Fortuna

The Violet Fairy Book

Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books constitute a twelve book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources, who had collected them originally with the notable exception of Madame d’Aulnoy, made them an immensely influential collection, especially as he used foreign language sources, giving many of these tales their first appearance in English. As acknowledged in the prefaces, although Lang himself made most of the selections, his wife and other translators did a large portion of the translating and telling of the actual stories. ‘The irony of Lang’s life and work is that although he wrote for a profession literary criticism; fiction; poems; books and articles on anthropology, mythology, history, and travel…
he is best recognized for the works he did not write.’ Lang’s urge to collect and publish fairy tales was rooted in his own experience with the folk and fairy tales of his home territory along the English Scottish border. When Lang began his efforts, he ‘was fighting against the critics and educationists of the day,’ who judged the traditional tales’ ‘unreality, brutality, and escapism to be harmful for young readers, while holding that such stories were beneath the serious consideration of those of mature age.’

The Orange Fairy Book

Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books constitute a twelve book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources, who had collected them originally with the notable exception of Madame d’Aulnoy, made them an immensely influential collection, especially as he used foreign language sources, giving many of these tales their first appearance in English. As acknowledged in the prefaces, although Lang himself made most of the selections, his wife and other translators did a large portion of the translating and telling of the actual stories. ‘The irony of Lang’s life and work is that although he wrote for a profession literary criticism; fiction; poems; books and articles on anthropology, mythology, history, and travel…
he is best recognized for the works he did not write.’ Lang’s urge to collect and publish fairy tales was rooted in his own experience with the folk and fairy tales of his home territory along the English Scottish border. When Lang began his efforts, he ‘was fighting against the critics and educationists of the day,’ who judged the traditional tales’ ‘unreality, brutality, and escapism to be harmful for young readers, while holding that such stories were beneath the serious consideration of those of mature age.’

The Lilac Fairy Book

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 ‘What cases are you engaged in at present?’ ‘Are you stopping many teeth just now?’ ‘What people have you converted lately?’ Do ladies put these questions to the men lawyers, dentists, clergymen, and so forth who happen to sit next them at dinner parties? I do not know whether ladies thus indicate their interest in the occupations of their casual neighbours at the hospitable board. But if they do not know me, or do not know me well, they generally ask ‘Are you writing anything now?’ as if they should ask a painter ‘Are you painting anything now?’ or a lawyer ‘Have you any cases at present?’. Sometimes they are more definite and inquire ‘What are you writing now?’ as if I must be writing something which, indeed, is the case, though I dislike being reminded of it. It is an awkward question, because the fair being does not care a bawbee what I am writing; nor would she be much enlightened if I replied ‘Madam, I am engaged on a treatise intended to prove that Normal is prior to Conceptional Totemism’ though that answer would be as true in fact as obscure in significance. The best plan seems to be to answer that I have entirely abandoned mere literature, and am contemplating a book on ‘The Causes of Early Blight in the Potato,’ a melancholy circumstance which threatens to deprive us of our chief esculent root.

The Library

Andrew Lang 1844 1912 was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon made a reputation as one of the ablest and most versatile writers of the day. Lang was one of the founders of the study of ‘Psychical Research,’ and his other writings on anthropology include The Book of Dreams and Ghosts 1897, Magic and Religion 1901 and The Secret of the Totem 1905. He was a Homeric scholar of conservative views. Other works include Homer and the Epic 1893; a prose translation of The Homeric Hymns 1899, with literary and mythological essays in which he draws parallels between Greek myths and other mythologies; and Homer and his Age 1906. He also wrote Ballades in Blue China 1880 and Rhymes la Mode 1884.

The Mark of Cain

Andrew Lang 1844 1912 was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews University and at Balliol College, Oxford. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon made a reputation as one of the ablest and most versatile writers of the day. Lang was one of the founders of the study of ‘Psychical Research,’ and his other writings on anthropology include The Book of Dreams and Ghosts 1897, Magic and Religion 1901 and The Secret of the Totem 1905. He was a Homeric scholar of conservative views. Other works include Homer and the Epic 1893; a prose translation of The Homeric Hymns 1899, with literary and mythological essays in which he draws parallels between Greek myths and other mythologies; and Homer and his Age 1906. He also wrote Ballades in Blue China 1880 and Rhymes la Mode 1884.

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DEAR ALLAN QUATERMAIN, You, who, with others, have aided so manfully in the Restoration of King Romance, know that His Majesty is a Merry Monarch. You will not think, therefore, that the respectful Liberty we have taken with your Wondrous Tale as Pamela did with the 137th Psalm indicates any lack of Loyalty to our Lady Ayesha. Her beauties are beyond the reach of danger from Burlesque, nor does her form flit across our humble pages. May you restore to us yet the prize of her perfections, for we, at least, can never believe that she wholly perished in the place of the Pillar of Fire! Yours ever, TWO OF THE AMA LO GROLLA.

Grass of Parnassus

Publisher: Longmans, Green Publication date: 1892 Subjects: History / General Juvenile Nonfiction / Language Arts / General Poetry / General Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh 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.

Old Friends

Andrew Lang 1844 1912 was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon made a reputation as one of the ablest and most versatile writers of the day. Lang was one of the founders of the study of ‘Psychical Research,’ and his other writings on anthropology include The Book of Dreams and Ghosts 1897, Magic and Religion 1901 and The Secret of the Totem 1905. He was a Homeric scholar of conservative views. Other works include Homer and the Epic 1893; a prose translation of The Homeric Hymns 1899, with literary and mythological essays in which he draws parallels between Greek myths and other mythologies; and Homer and his Age 1906. He also wrote Ballades in Blue China 1880 and Rhymes la Mode 1884. Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books are a twelve book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources who had collected them originally, made them an immensely influential collection, especially as he used foreign language sources, giving many of these tales their first appearance in English.

The World’s Desire

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE SLAYING OF THE SIDONIANS. Morning broke in the East. A new day dawned upon the silent sea, and on the world of light and sound. The sunrise topped the hill at last, and fell upon the golden raiment of the Wanderer where he slept, making it blaze like living fire. As the sun touched him, the prow of a black ship stole swiftly round the headland, for the oarsmen drove her well with the oars. Any man who saw her would have known her to be a vessel of the merchants of Sidon the most cunning people and the greediest of gain for on her prow were two big headed shapes of dwarfs, with gaping mouths and knotted limbs. Such gods as those were worshipped by the Sidonians. She was now returning from Albion, an isle beyond the pillars of Heracles and the gates of the great sea, where much store of tin is found; and she had rich merchandise on board. On the half deck beside the steersman was the captain, a thin, keen eyed sailor, who looked shoreward and paw the sun blaze on the golden armour of lln’ Yandprpr. They were so far off that he could not see clearly what it was that glittered yellow, but all that glittered yellow was a lurefor him, and gold drew him on as iron draws the hands of heroes. So he bade the helmsman steer straight in, for the sea was deep below the rock, and there they all saw a man lying asleep in golden armour. They whispered together, laughing silently, and then sprang ashore, taking with them a rope of twisted ox hide, a hawser of the ship, and a strong cable of byblus, the papyrus plant. On these ropes they cast a loop and a running knot, a lasso for throwing, so that they might capture the man in safety from a distance. With these in their hands they crept up the cliff, for their purpose was to noose the man in golden armour, and drag him…

A Monk of Fife

The one opened the door with a latch key and went in, followed by a young fellow who awkwardly removed his cap. He wore rough clothes that smacked of the sea, and he was manifestly out of place in the spacious hall in which he found himself. He did not know what to do with his cap, and was stuffing it into his coat pocket when the other took it from him. The act was done quietly and naturally, and the awkward young fellow appreciated it. ‘He understands,’ was his thought. ‘He’ll see me through all right.’ He walked at the other’s heels with a swing to his shoulders, and his legs spread unwittingly, as if the level floors were tilting up and sinking down to the heave and lunge of the sea. The wide rooms seemed too narrow for his rolling gait, and to himself he was in terror lest his broad shoulders should collide with the doorways or sweep the bric a brac from the low mantel. He recoiled from side to side between the various objects and multiplied the hazards that in reality lodged only in his mind. Between a grand piano and a centre table piled high with books was space for a half a dozen to walk abreast, yet he essayed it with trepidation. His heavy arms hung loosely at his sides.

In the Wrong Paradise

This book is annotated with a rare extensive biographical sketch of the author, Andrew Lang, written by Sir Edmund Gosse, CB, a contemporary poet and writer.’Annotated Author’s Edition’ comprises the best fiction ever written in history, every single work annotated with biographical sketches, reviews and much more. This series offers a large range of out of print books and long lost titles, as well as million sellers that form the essentials of literature. By buying a book from this series you can count on top quality. All books have been digitally revised and optimized for Kindle, including an interactive table of contents for easy browsing. We do not sell cheap scanned stuff, all our books must meet our own high standards of reading. If you like to find more books from this series, please use the Amazon search field within the Kindle store and type ‘Annotated Author’s Edition’. This will show you the whole range, which grows constantly and almost day by day. The book: This volume contains the following short stories by the famous Scottish poet and novelist:Contents:DEDICATION. PREFACE. THE END OF PH ACIAIn the Wrong Paradise AN OCCIDENTAL APOLOGUE.A CHEAP nig*ger. THE ROMANCE OF THE FIRST RADICAL.A DUCHESS S SECRET. THE HOUSE OF STRANGE STORIES. IN CASTLE PERILOUS. THE GREAT GLADSTONE MYTH. MY FRIEND THE BEACH COMBER.

The Gold of Fairnilee

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Tales of Troy and Greece

This is the Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case. Read by Frederick Davidson This re creation of the Greek myths is a great listen for the whole family. Master storyteller Andrew Lang draws on his classical learning to recount Homeric legends of the wars between the Greeks and the Trojans. Paris, the lovely Helen of Troy, Achilles, Hector, Ulysses, the Amazons, and the Trojan Horse all figure in this magical introduction to one of the greatest legends ever told. Also included in this book are the adventures of Theseus and his dramatic battle with the Minotaur, as well as Jason’s quest for the Golden Fleece and the adventures of Perseus.

The Princess Nobody

Charming illustrations enhance the narrative of a much loved classic that tells the story of Prince Comical and his search for the diminutive princess without a name. Elves, fairies, dwarfs and other denizens of fairyland will prove irresistible to anyone enchanted by the fantasy world of sprites and other little people.

Ballads and Lyrics of Old France

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Helen of Troy

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Custom and Myth

Andrew Lang 1844 1912 was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon made a reputation as one of the ablest and most versatile writers of the day. Lang was one of the founders of the study of ‘Psychical Research,’ and his other writings on anthropology include The Book of Dreams and Ghosts 1897, Magic and Religion 1901 and The Secret of the Totem 1905. He was a Homeric scholar of conservative views. Other works include Homer and the Epic 1893; a prose translation of The Homeric Hymns 1899, with literary and mythological essays in which he draws parallels between Greek myths and other mythologies; and Homer and his Age 1906. He also wrote Ballades in Blue China 1880 and Rhymes la Mode 1884.

Rhymes a la Mode

Andrew Lang 1844 1912 was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon made a reputation as one of the ablest and most versatile writers of the day. Lang was one of the founders of the study of ‘Psychical Research,’ and his other writings on anthropology include The Book of Dreams and Ghosts 1897, Magic and Religion 1901 and The Secret of the Totem 1905. He was a Homeric scholar of conservative views. Other works include Homer and the Epic 1893; a prose translation of The Homeric Hymns 1899, with literary and mythological essays in which he draws parallels between Greek myths and other mythologies; and Homer and his Age 1906. He also wrote Ballades in Blue China 1880 and Rhymes la Mode 1884. Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books are a twelve book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources who had collected them originally, made them an immensely influential collection, especially as he used foreign language sources, giving many of these tales their first appearance in English.

Letters to Dead Authors

Andrew Lang 1844 1912 was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon made a reputation as one of the ablest and most versatile writers of the day. Lang was one of the founders of the study of ‘Psychical Research,’ and his other writings on anthropology include The Book of Dreams and Ghosts 1897, Magic and Religion 1901 and The Secret of the Totem 1905. He was a Homeric scholar of conservative views. Other works include Homer and the Epic 1893; a prose translation of The Homeric Hymns 1899, with literary and mythological essays in which he draws parallels between Greek myths and other mythologies; and Homer and his Age 1906. He also wrote Ballades in Blue China 1880 and Rhymes la Mode 1884.

Books and Bookmen

Andrew Lang 1844 1912 was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon made a reputation as one of the ablest and most versatile writers of the day. Lang was one of the founders of the study of ‘Psychical Research,’ and his other writings on anthropology include The Book of Dreams and Ghosts 1897, Magic and Religion 1901 and The Secret of the Totem 1905. He was a Homeric scholar of conservative views. Other works include Homer and the Epic 1893; a prose translation of The Homeric Hymns 1899, with literary and mythological essays in which he draws parallels between Greek myths and other mythologies; and Homer and his Age 1906. He also wrote Ballades in Blue China 1880 and Rhymes la Mode 1884.

Myth, Ritual, and Religion

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: FIELDING, To Mrs. Goodhart, in the Upper Mississippi Valley. Dear Madam, Many thanks for the New York newspaper you have kindly sent me, with the statistics of book buying in the Upper Mississippi Valley. Those are interesting particulars which tell one so much about the taste of a community. So the Rev. E. P. Roe is your favourite novelist there ; a thousand of his books are sold for every two copies of the works of Henry Fielding ? This appears to me to speak but oddly for taste in the Upper Mississippi Valley. On Mr. Roe’s works I have no criticismto pass, for I have not read them carefully. But I do think your neighbours lose a great deal by neglecting Henry Fielding. You will tell me he is coarse which I cannot deny; you will remind me of what Dr. Johnson said, rebuking Miss Hannah More. ‘ I never saw Johnson really angry with me but once,’ writes that sainted maiden lady. ‘ I alluded to some witty passage in ‘ Tom Jones.’ ‘ He replied : ‘ I am shocked to hear you quote from so vicious a book. I am sorry to hear you have read it; a confession which no modest lady should ever make.’ You remind me of this, and that Johnson was no prude, and that his age was tolerant. You add that the literary taste of the Upper Mississippi Valley is much more pure than the waters of her majestic river, and that you onjy wish you knew who the two culprits were that bought books of Fielding’s. Ah, madam, how shall I answer you ? Remember that if you have Johnson on your 3ide, on mine I have Miss More herself, a character purer than ‘ the consecrated snow that lies on Dian’s lap.’ Again, we cannot believe Johnson was fair to Fielding, who had made his friend, the author of ‘ Pamela,’ very uncomfortable by his jests. Johnson owned that he read all ‘ Amelia ‘ at one sitting…
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Lost Leaders

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: WINTER SPORTS. People to whom cold means misery, who hate to be braced, and shudder at the word ‘seasonable,’ can have little difficulty in accounting for the origin of the sports of winter. They need only adapt to the circumstances that old Lydian tradition which says that games of chance were invented during a great famine. Men permitted themselves to eat only every second day, and tried to forget their hunger in playing at draughts and dice. That is clearly the invention of a southern people, which never had occasion to wish it could become oblivious of the weather, as too many of us would like to be in England. Such shivering and indolent folks may be inclined to say that skating and curling and wildfowl shooting, and the other diversions which seduce the able bodied from the warm precincts of the cheerful fire, were only contrived to enable us to forget the state of the thermometer. Whether or not that was the purpose of the first northerner who fixed sheep bones beneath his feet, to course more smoothly over the frozen sound, there can be no doubt that winter sports answer their presumed purpose. They keep up that glow which only exercise in the open air can give, and promote the health which shows itself in the complexion. It is the young lady who interprets literally the Scotch invitation ‘ come into the fire,’ and who spoils the backs of library novels by holding them too near the comfortable hearth, she it is who suffers from the ignoble and unbecoming liberties that winter takes with the human countenance. Happier and wiser is she who studies the always living and popular Dutch roll rather than the Grecian bend, and who blooms with continual health and good temper. Our changeful climate affords so few opportunities of learning to skate, that it is really extraordi…

Angling Sketches

Andrew Lang 1844 1912 was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon made a reputation as one of the ablest and most versatile writers of the day. Lang was one of the founders of the study of ‘Psychical Research,’ and his other writings on anthropology include The Book of Dreams and Ghosts 1897, Magic and Religion 1901 and The Secret of the Totem 1905. He was a Homeric scholar of conservative views. Other works include Homer and the Epic 1893; a prose translation of The Homeric Hymns 1899, with literary and mythological essays in which he draws parallels between Greek myths and other mythologies; and Homer and his Age 1906. He also wrote Ballades in Blue China 1880 and Rhymes la Mode 1884.

Essays in Little

Andrew Lang 1844 1912 was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon made a reputation as one of the ablest and most versatile writers of the day. Lang was one of the founders of the study of ‘Psychical Research,’ and his other writings on anthropology include The Book of Dreams and Ghosts 1897, Magic and Religion 1901 and The Secret of the Totem 1905. He was a Homeric scholar of conservative views. Other works include Homer and the Epic 1893; a prose translation of The Homeric Hymns 1899, with literary and mythological essays in which he draws parallels between Greek myths and other mythologies; and Homer and his Age 1906. He also wrote Ballades in Blue China 1880 and Rhymes la Mode 1884.

Homer and the Epic

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: colleges, i11 later years, have frequently resisted the proposal of an entrance examination, as tending to Hepburn’s Wall diminish the number of students, and thereby ruin the professors. There is to be no jobbing or can vassing for scholarships. If several candidates present themselves, the examination is to be competitive. No scholar under fifteen, or over twenty one, is to be admitted. The scholars are to live, in pairs, like the old Oxford ‘ chamber dekyns,’ in rooms with a southern exposure, looking out over the broad gardens that slope down towards the little burn which enters the harbour. The old precinct wall girdles the garden still, with its c’oronal of towers marked with Hepburn’s arms. The course of study was in logic, physics, philosophy, metaphysics, and ethics, but Aristotle was probably read in Latin translations. All the scholars were to converse in Latin. The Latin would not be Ciceronian; the influence of Erasmus had only reached the archbishop, not the students. John Knox scoffs, not unjustly, at the ecclesiastical prose of the period: ‘ the barbarous ness of their Latine and dictament.’ The following verses, engraved on the tomb of Prior Halderistone died 14. 43, show what our scholars used to do in verse : Qui docni mores, mundi vitare favores, Inter doctores sacros sortitus honores, Vermibus hie donor; et sic ostendere conor, Quod sicut ponor, ponitur omnis honor. This prior, by the way, was responsible for the large eastern window of the Cathedral, which he put in place of three small windows. He floored the choirwith a polished pavement, and rebuilt a palace in the priory ground. The allowance of food was four ounces of bread at breakfast and supper, with eight ounces at dinner. On flesh days they had broth and a dish of meat; on…

Ban and Arriere Ban

1894. While best known for his translations of classical literature and as a collector of folk and fairy tales, Lang also wrote poetry, biographies, histories, novels, literary criticisms and even children’s books. Contents: A Cot to Jeanne D’Arc; How They Held the Bass for King James 1691 1693; Three Portraits of Prince Charles; From Omar Khayyam; Aesop; Les Roses De Sadi; The Haunted Tower; Boat Song; Lost Love; The Promise of Helen; The Restoration of Romance; Central American Antiquities; and On Calais Sands. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Co*ck Lane and Common Sense

Andrew Lang 1844 1912 was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon made a reputation as one of the ablest and most versatile writers of the day. Lang was one of the founders of the study of ‘Psychical Research,’ and his other writings on anthropology include The Book of Dreams and Ghosts 1897, Magic and Religion 1901 and The Secret of the Totem 1905. He was a Homeric scholar of conservative views. Other works include Homer and the Epic 1893; a prose translation of The Homeric Hymns 1899, with literary and mythological essays in which he draws parallels between Greek myths and other mythologies; and Homer and his Age 1906. He also wrote Ballades in Blue China 1880 and Rhymes la Mode 1884.

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