Nonfiction · 1912
Adventures Among Books
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Contents
- Preface
- Chapter I — Adventures Among Books
- Chapter II — Recollections of Robert Louis Stevenson
- Chapter III — Rab’s Friend
- Chapter IV — Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Chapter V — Mr. Morris’s Poems
- Chapter VI — Mrs. Radcliffe’s Novels
- Chapter VII — A Scottish Romanticist of 1830
- Chapter VIII — The Confessions of Saint Augustine
- Chapter IX — Smollett
- Chapter X — Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Chapter XI — The Paradise of Poets
- Chapter XII — Paris and Helen
- Chapter XIII — Enchanted Cigarettes
- Chapter Xiv: Stories and Story-Telling: (From Strath Naver)
- Chapter XV — The Supernatural in Fiction
- Advertisement
- Chapter XVII — The Boy
- Footnotes
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About the author
1844–1912 · Victorian
Andrew Lang (1844–1912) was born in Selkirk and educated at St Andrews, Glasgow and Oxford, where he held a fellowship at Merton College before turning to literary journalism in London. A folklorist, classicist, historian, poet and immensely prolific reviewer, he is best remembered as the general editor of the twelve "colour" fairy books (1889–1910), for which his wife, Leonora Blanche Lang, and other collaborators carried out much of the actual translation under his direction. He also wrote fairy tales of his own, among them Prince Prigio, and a History of Scotland.
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