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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The Virginia Quarterly Review
Dead Letter 10/01/2004: 6,286 words, approx. 21 pages
Coachy, to whom Papa Toussaint had given the two letters for Paul Louverture, led their way south from Point Samana toward Santo Domingo City. Coachy had been to that place before, not so long ago, when Papa Toussaint had sent his army to the...
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The Boston Globe
Dead letters 01/17/1995: 325 words, approx. 1 pages
She had led a quiet life. A librarian, and then editor of one of the American Library Association publications. Retired 20 years ago and continued her low-key activities -- community groups, women's rights organizations, cultural supporters. A modest income that she shared freely with...
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