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...
I HAVE NO WAY of knowing whether it is fate that has pushed me onto this dais, but as various lucky coincidences have created this opportunity, I may as well call it fate. Putting aside discussion of the existence or nonexistence of God, I...
as you're reading this, I'll be standing behind a stall in the middle of Regent's Park trying to sell homemade cakes to several thousand food lovers. No easy task, obviously, particularly as some of the merchandise on sale will have been made by me....
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