The complete online text of Grass of Parnassus 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...

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Who cares if you listen? Certainly not Mario Davidovsky, who echoed Milton Babbitt's now-classic diatribe against the musical mass market. His remarks during a pre-concert panel discussion warned the audience what to expect from the recent performance by Parnassus, a skilled New York-based contemporary...