The complete online text of Introduction to the Compleat Angler 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...

I'm woken by a distant roar. Terrible traffic noise in this place, I note groggily, before remembering that the whooshing sound is entirely acceptable, for the culprit is not a main road, but an arc of falling water: the weir at Marlow. It's...

Byline: ROY HATTERSLEY DOVEDALE - a ravine which the river has cut deep into the rock. On a bright but cold day, only a handful of the million visitors who enjoy its beauty each year braved the sharp wind. But at...