The complete online text of A Monk of Fife by Andrew Lang.

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 productive man of letters influenced children's literatur...

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 States. He was a prolific and facile writer who was alw...

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 Biography. A confirmed polymath and gifted polyglot, i...

BOB IVRY, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 10-19-1998 A SLICE OF FIFE -- IN 'PLEASANTVILLE,' DON KNOTTS RETURNS TO THE BLACK-AND-WHITE WORLD OF A 1950S SITCOM By BOB IVRY, Staff Writer Date: 10-19-1998, Monday Section: YOUR TIME Edition: All Editions --...

Jazz giants Mr Misterioso MONK. By Laurent de Wilde. Trans. by Jonathan Dickinson. Marlowe; 214 pages; $22.95. STRAIGHT, NO CHASER. By Leslie Gourse. Schirmer Books; 340 pages; $27. BWA; K16.99 ACCORDING to a jazz joke of the late 50s,...