Biographie et livres d'Andrew Lang

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Andrew Lang, né à Selkirk le 31 mars 1844 et mort le 20 juillet 1912 à Banchory, est un homme de lettres écossais, poète, romancier, critique littéraire.

Il est surtout connu pour ses travaux sur le folklore, la mythologie et la religion.

Éditeur du Harper's Magazine en 1885, il aide Henry Rider Haggard à publier Les Mines du Roi Salomon et fait paraître avec lui The World's Desire, une sorte de suite de l'Odyssée. Il est principalement connu pour la série de douze recueils de contes de fées qu'il publie de 1889 à 1910, chacun nommé d'après une couleur.

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The Story of Joan of Arc: A Quick Read edition

Andrew Lang , Quick Read

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2024-02-16

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Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read. This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter. - Reading time of the complete text: about 2 hours - Reading time of the summarized text: 19 minutes

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Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Feuilleter Études traditionnistes Andrew Lang On ne pourrait définir l’homme comme un animal boycottant, les créatures inférieures pratiquant aussi l’art du Boycottage. Le troupeau, si l’on en croit le proverbe, boycotte le cerf chargé d’années ; les moutons, les oiseaux, les poissons eux-mêmes — pensons-nous — ont... Editeur : Collection XIX Parution : 2016-04-04 epub sans DRM 3,49 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The World's Desire H. Rider Haggard , Andrew Lang The World’s Desire begins with Odysseus utterly alone. His kingdom of Ithaca is an empty, abandoned wasteland. His beloved wife Penelope is dead. His patron goddess Athena has forsaken him. But then Aphrodite visits Odysseus and sends him on a quest to find the... Editeur : Union Square & Co. Parution : 2022-09-06 Collection : Rediscovered Classics ePub 7,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Iliad and The Odyssey + Homer and His Age Samuel Butler , Homer Homer , Andrew Lang This carefully crafted ebook: “The Iliad and The Odyssey + Homer and His Age” contains 2 books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Iliad and the Odyssey are two epic poems written by Homer around the 9th... Editeur : e-artnow Parution : 2013-11-15 epub sans DRM 0,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Rob Roy + The Heart of Midlothian (2 Unabridged and fully Illustrated Classics with Introductory Essay and Notes by Andrew Lang) Andrew Lang , Walter Scott This carefully crafted ebook: “Rob Roy + The Heart of Midlothian (2 Unabridged and fully Illustrated Classics with Introductory Essay and Notes by Andrew Lang)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Rob Roy (1817) is a... Editeur : e-artnow Parution : 2013-10-10 epub sans DRM 0,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Waverley + Guy Mannering + The Antiquary (3 Unabridged and fully Illustrated Classics with Introductory Essay and Notes by Andrew Lang) Andrew Lang , Walter Scott This carefully crafted ebook: “Waverley + Guy Mannering + The Antiquary (3 Unabridged and fully Illustrated Classics with Introductory Essay and Notes by Andrew Lang)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Waverley is a... Editeur : e-artnow Parution : 2013-10-09 epub sans DRM 0,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Arabian Nights or One Thousand and One Nights (Andrew Lang) + New Arabian Nights (Robert Louis Stevenson) Andrew Lang , Robert Louis Stevenson This carefully crafted ebook: “Arabian Nights or One Thousand and One Nights (Andrew Lang) + New Arabian Nights (Robert Louis Stevenson)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. A medieval Middle-Eastern literary epic which tells... Editeur : e-artnow Parution : 2013-09-15 epub sans DRM 0,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol 1 Andrew Lang When this book first appeared (1886), the philological school of interpretation of religion and myth, being then still powerful in England, was criticised and opposed by the author. In Science, as on the Turkish throne of old, Amurath to Amurath succeeds; the... Editeur : eBooksLib (en) Parution : 1905-06-30 ePub 1,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Alfred Tennyson Andrew Lang In writing this brief sketch of the Life of Tennyson, and this attempt to appreciate his work, I have rested almost entirely on the Biography by Lord Tennyson (with his kind permission) and on the text of the Poems. As to the Life, doubtless current anecdotes, not... Editeur : eBooksLib (en) Parution : 1905-06-30 ePub 1,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Blue Fairy Book Andrew Lang Once upon a time in a certain country there lived a king whose palace was surrounded by a spacious garden. But, though the gardeners were many and the soil was good, this garden yielded neither flowers nor fruits, not even grass or shady trees. Editeur : eBooksLib (en) Parution : 1905-06-30 ePub 1,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Crimson Fairy Book Andrew Lang Each Fairy Book demands a preface from the Editor, and these introductions are inevitably both monotonous and unavailing. A sense of literary honesty compels the Editor to keep repeating that he is the Editor, and not the author of the Fairy Tales, just as a... Editeur : eBooksLib (en) Parution : 1905-06-30 ePub 1,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Grass of Parnassus Andrew Lang The bays are out of reach! But far belo Editeur : eBooksLib (en) Parution : 1905-06-30 ePub 1,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies A Short History of Scotland Andrew Lang If we could see in a magic mirror the country now called Scotland as it was when the Romans under Agricola (81 A.D.) crossed the Border, we should recognise little but the familiar hills and mountains. The rivers, in the plains, overflowed their present banks; dense... Editeur : eBooksLib (en) Parution : 1905-06-30 ePub 1,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Brown Fairy Book Andrew Lang The stories in this Fairy Book come from all quarters of the world. For example, the adventures of 'Ball-Carrier and the Bad One' are told by Red Indian grandmothers to Red Indian children who never go to school, nor see pen and ink. 'The Bunyip' is known to even more... Editeur : eBooksLib (en) Parution : 1905-06-30 ePub 1,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Grey Fairy Book Andrew Lang The tales in the Grey Fairy Book are derived from many countries- -Lithuania, various parts of Africa, Germany, France, Greece, and other regions of the world. They have been translated and adapted by Mrs. Dent, Mrs. Lang, Miss Eleanor Sellar, Miss Blackley, and Miss... Editeur : eBooksLib (en) Parution : 1905-06-30 ePub 1,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Homer and His Age Andrew Lang In Homer and the Epic, ten or twelve years ago, I examined the literary objections to Homeric unity. These objections are chiefly based on alleged discrepancies in the narrative, of which no one poet, it is supposed, could have been guilty. The critics repose, I venture... Editeur : eBooksLib (en) Parution : 1905-06-30 ePub 1,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Orange Fairy Book Andrew Lang The children who read fairy books, or have fairy books read to them, do not read prefaces, and the parents, aunts, uncles, and cousins, who give fairy books to their daughters, nieces, and cousines, leave prefaces unread. For whom, then, are prefaces written? When an... Editeur : eBooksLib (en) Parution : 1905-06-30 ePub 1,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Pink Fairy Book Andrew Lang All people in the world tell nursery tales to their children. The Japanese tell them, the Chinese, the Red Indians by their camp fires, the Eskimo in their dark dirty winter huts. The Kaffirs of South Africa tell them, and the modern Greeks, just as the old Egyptians... Editeur : eBooksLib (en) Parution : 1905-06-30 ePub 1,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Shakespeare, Bacon and the Great Unknown Andrew Lang The theory that Francis Bacon was, in the main, the author of Shakespeare's plays, has now been for fifty years before the learned world. Its advocates have met with less support than they had reason to expect. Their methods, their logic, and their hypotheses closely... Editeur : eBooksLib (en) Parution : 1905-06-30 ePub 1,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Yellow Fairy Book Andrew Lang The Editor thinks that children will readily forgive him for publishing another Fairy Book. We have had the Blue, the Red, the Green, and here is the Yellow. If children are pleased, and they are so kind as to say that they are pleased, the Editor does not care very... Editeur : eBooksLib (en) Parution : 1905-06-30 ePub 1,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Library Andrew Lang The pages in this volume on illuminated and other MSS. (with the exception of some anecdotes about Bussy Rabutin and Julie de Rambouillet) have been contributed by the Rev. W. J. Loftie, who has also written on early printed books (pp. 94-95). The pages on the... Editeur : eBooksLib (en) Parution : 1905-06-30 ePub 1,99 €
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