The complete online text of The Book of Dreams and Ghosts 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...

PATTI ATKINSON-BATTISTA, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 09-10-1998 GHOSTS GET FIELD OF DREAMS By PATTI ATKINSON-BATTISTA, Staff Writer Date: 09-10-1998, Thursday Section: SPECIAL SECTION / SPORTS Edition: All Editions -- 2 Star B, 2 Star P, 1 Star Early PATERSON...

At his best, Irish novelist John Banville employs an incisive prose that is at once crystalline and obscure. He cares less for plot and character than for language itself --but in giving himself to language, he cannot help but creat eccentric and intriguing...