Andrew Lang - Libros y biografía

This book contains one of the most famous literary works in history, "The Odyssey" rendered into beautiful English prose. This book is annotated with a rare extensive biographical sketch of the author,...

The Fairy Book Series is further enriched by the addition of this latest volume, which is quite as gorgeous as the preceding ones-though the author might well be supposed to have exhausted his supply...

This is volume 4, covering the time from Mary Stuart to the Two Murders. In many volumes of several thousand combined pages the series "The History of Scotland" deals with something less than two millenniums...

This is volume 6, covering the time from Bothwell to James VI. In many volumes of several thousand combined pages the series "The History of Scotland" deals with something less than two millenniums of...

This is volume 8, covering the time from the Scots invasion to the Restoration. In many volumes of several thousand combined pages the series "The History of Scotland" deals with something less than...

This is volume 7, covering the time from the early 17th Century to the Bishops' war. In many volumes of several thousand combined pages the series "The History of Scotland" deals with something less...

This is volume 10, covering the time from Glencoe to the Jacobites. In many volumes of several thousand combined pages the series "The History of Scotland" deals with something less than two millenniums...

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. A review of Mr. Lang's work would come late,...

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. It is not without hesitation that this book...

First and foremost, always and forever, among tales for children come the fairy tales. What were childhood without the fairy tale? That child who has never wandered through the magic gardens of Fairyland...

This is volume 1, covering the time from the Roman Occupation to Feudal Scotland. In many volumes of several thousand combined pages the series "The History of Scotland" deals with something less than...

This is volume 12, covering the time from the Jacobite leaders to the end of Jacobitism. In many volumes of several thousand combined pages the series "The History of Scotland" deals with something less...

This is volume 2, covering the time from the death of Wallace to James III. In many volumes of several thousand combined pages the series "The History of Scotland" deals with something less than two...

This work of the well-known historian and man-of-letters, Mr. Andrew Lang, is not a biography at all; it is a controversial pamphlet of large size, the thesis of which is a quotation from ' The Diurnal'...

For a generation Andrew Lang has delighted the children, and grown-ups too for that matter, with his fairy books. This is of a new sort, for the tales are of many different kinds. Some are true, like...

If anyone believes that style does not appeal to the young readers, let him open Mr. Andrew Langs "The Animal Story Book" (Jazzybee Publishing), and read to any intelligent child of nine years Dumas'...

Written to disprove the accusation against Sir Walter Scott-that he helped to compose, and issued as a genuine antique, a ballad, "Auld Maitland." The facts in the case exist in published works and certain...

The theory that Francis Bacon was, in the main, the author of "Shakespeare's plays," has now been for fifty years before the learned world. Its advocates have met with less support than they had reason...

Andrew Lang's selection from the vast treasure chest of the Arabian nights fairy tales contains the following stories: The Story of the Merchant and the Genius The Story of the First Old Man and of the...

An old Scottish lady, many generations ago, used to say, 'It is a great comfort to think that, at the Day of Judgment, we shall know the whole truth about the Gowrie Conspiracy at last.' Since the author,...

This volume contains the following short stories by the famous Scottish poet and novelist: This book is annotated with a rare extensive biographical sketch of the author, Andrew Lang, written by Sir...

This compilation consists of the best-known hand-written fairy tales by Mr. Lang. These are Prince Prigio, a literary and comic fairy tale written in 1889, the follow-up called "Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia"...

This is volume 9, covering the time from the Restoration to the death of Dundee. In many volumes of several thousand combined pages the series "The History of Scotland" deals with something less than...

This is volume 11, covering the time from the Jacobite rising to the Secession. In many volumes of several thousand combined pages the series "The History of Scotland" deals with something less than...

This is volume 3, covering the time from James IV. to Knox and Mary of Guise. In many volumes of several thousand combined pages the series "The History of Scotland" deals with something less than two...

The "Mark of Cain" is a small pattern used in tattooing, which is said to correspond with the tribal mark which Jehovah appointed to Cain in the patriarchal story. This mark is seen upon the body of a...

Perhaps there are some who will think we as a publisher are overexacting in our demands for children's literature. Many of Dr. Church's adaptations have come to us, and we cannot claim that they have...

Having stripped the rainbow of its primary colors for titles for his annual collection of fairy-tales, Mr. Lang was forced to employ a neutral tint. Besides "The Red Fairy Book," we have had a Blue, a...

This is volume 5, covering the time from Murray to the King of Many Enemies. In many volumes of several thousand combined pages the series "The History of Scotland" deals with something less than two...

Perhaps the best and handsomest of these tales of wonder is " The Green Fairy Book," edited by Andrew Lang. This is the third of Andrew Lang's stories of fairies, the blue book and the red book having...