PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
The chief purpose of this book is, if fortune helps,
to entertain people interested in the kind of narratives
here collected. For the sake of orderly arrangement,
t...
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For more than thirty-five years, from 1875 to 1912, Andrew Lang's essays, reviews, and editorial leaders shaped the opinions and influenced the tastes of the reading public of England and the United S...
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More than any other British writer of the second half of the nineteenth century, Andrew Lang successfully championed the fairy tale as appropriate reading material for children. This astonishingly pro...
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Andrew Lang was "the greatest bookman of our age, and after [Robert Louis] Stevenson, the last great man of letters of the old Scottish tradition," affirms George Gordon in The Dictionary of National ...
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