Andrew Lang

In 'Homer and His Age', Andrew Lang examines the controversy surrounding the authorship of Homer's epic poems. Lang argues that the fallacy of the analytical reader, who expects a level of consistency beyond the intended audience of the poet, is at the root of many objections to the idea that only Homer and no other author wrote his poems. Lang explores the way of life described in the poems, demonstrating that it reflects a single brief age of culture. He urges readers not to be swayed by dogmatic assumptions about the most fashionable hypothesis, but to approach the study of Homer with the scientific spirit of comparison, logic, and economy of conjecture.

Homer and His Age

Brothers Grimm

Jeanne De Beaumont

Gabrielle De Villeneuve

Beauty and the Beast - All Four Versions includes the original, adult-oriented edition of the story by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve (translated from the French by James Robinson Planch ), the simplified and shortened version by Jeanne-Marie Leprince De Beaumont which appeared sixteen years later - the basis for all future versions, the Brothers Grimm adaptation and a somewhat forgotten version by Victorian folklorist and anthropologist Andrew Lang.

Beauty and the Beast Ð All Four Versions

THE ARABIAN NIGHTS A funny thing happened on the way to my potential ― Anonymous, The Arabian Nights The Arabian Nights, also known as The Thousand and One Nights, is a collection of tales from the Islamic Golden Age compiled, translated, and passed on by various authors for centuries. The Arabian Nights is the first English language edition made by the collector of folk and fairy tales, Andrew Lang and it has been the title of the collection that is well-known to English-speakers. Although the collection features different stories, they are all centered around the story of the sultan Shahrayar and his wife, Scheherazade. Some of the best-known titles in the collection are the following: Aladdin`s Wonderful Lamp Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves The Tale of the Hunchback The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor From historical tales to tragic romances to comedies, this collection has it all! Add to cart and Get your copy now!

The Arabian Nights Entertainments

Adventures among Books

Books and Bookmen

A collection of ballads, ed. by A. Lang

William James

Arthur James Balfour

Henry Sidgwick

Sir Oliver Lodge

Society for Psychical Research (Great Britain)

Frederic William Henry Myers

William Crookes

Charles Richet

Henry Arthur Smith

Balfour Stewart

Sir William Barrett

Gerald William Balfour

Presidential Addresses to the Society for Psychical Research, 1882-1911

The Poetry of Sport

Historical mysteries including the case of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey.

And Other Studies

The Valet's Tragedy

Nineteen romances, mostly from the Arthurian legends.

The Book of Romance

Being the Story of the Life and Death of Jeanne DA̓rc

The Maid of France

The Poetical Works of Andrew Lang

A History of Scotland from the Roman Occupation

The Mystery of Mary Stuart

Homer

Samuel Henry Butcher

Done Into English Prose

The Odyssey

Donald Grant Mitchell

Selections from the World's Great Writers, Ancient, Mediaeval, and Modern, with Biographical and Explanatory Notes and with Introductions

The International Library of Famous Literature

H J Ford

Many years ago my friend and publisher, Mr. Charles Longman, presented me with Le Cabinet desFées ('The Fairy Cabinet'). This work almost requires a swinging bookcase for its accommodation, like the Encyclopædia Britannica, and in a revolving bookcase I bestowed the volumes. Circumstancesof an intimately domestic character, 'not wholly unconnected, ' as Mr. Micawber might have said, with the narrowness of my study (in which it is impossible to 'swing a cat'), prevent the revolvingbookcase from revolving at this moment. I can see, however, that the Fairy Cabinet contains at leastforty volumes, and I think there are about sixty in all. This great plenitude of fairy tales from allquarters presents legends of fairies, witches, genii or Djinn, monsters, dragons, wicked step-mothers, princesses, pretty or plain, princes lucky or unlucky, giants, dwarfs, and enchantments. The storiesbegin with those which children like best-the old Blue Beard, Puss in Boots, Hop o' my Thumb, LittleRed Riding Hood, The Sleeping Beauty, and Toads and Pearls. These were first collected, written, andprinted at Paris in 1697. The author was Monsieur Charles Perrault, a famous personage in a greatperruque, who in his day wrote large volumes now unread. He never dreamed that he was to beremembered mainly by the shabby little volume with the tiny headpiece pictures-how unlike thefairy way of drawing by Mr. Ford, said to be known as 'Over-the-wall Ford' among authors who playcricket, because of the force with which he swipes! Perrault picked up the rustic tales which thenurse of his little boy used to tell, and he told them again in his own courtly, witty way. They do notseem to have been translated into English until nearly thirty years later, when they were published inEnglish, with the French on the opposite page, by a Mr. Pote, a bookseller at Eton. Probably theyounger Eton boys learned as much French as they condescended to acquire from these fairy tales, which are certainly more amusing than the Télémaque of Messire François de Salignac de la MotteFénelon, tutor of the children of France, Archbishop Duke of Cambrai, and Prince of the HolyRoman Empire.

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The Olive Fairy Book

The stories begin with those which children like best-the old Blue Beard, Puss in Boots, Hop o' my Thumb, Little Red Riding Hood, The Sleeping Beauty, and Toads and Pearls. These were first collected, written, and printed at Paris in 1697. The author was Monsieur Charles Perrault, a famous personage in a great perruque, who in his day wrote large volumes now unread. He never dreamed that he was to be remembered mainly by the shabby little volume with the tiny headpiece pictures-how unlike the fairy way of drawing by Mr. Ford, said to be known as 'Over-the-wall Ford' among authors who play cricket, because of the force with which he swipes! Perrault picked up the rustic tales which the nurse of his little boy used to tell, and he told them again in his own courtly, witty way. They do not seem to have been translated into English until nearly thirty years later, when they were published in English, with the French on the opposite page, by a Mr. Pote, a bookseller at Eton. Probably the younger Eton boys learned as much French as they condescended to acquire from these fairy tales, which are certainly more amusing than the Telemaque of Messire François de Salignac de la Motte-Fénelon, tutor of the children of France, Archbishop Duke of Cambrai, and Prince of the Holy Roman Empire. The success of Perrault was based on the pleasure which the court of Louis XIV. took in fairy tales; we know that they were told among Court ladies, from a letter of Madame de Sévigné. Naturally, Perrault had imitators, such as Madame d'Aulnoy, a wandering lady of more wit than reputation. To her we owe Beauty and the Beast and The Yellow Dwarf. Anthony Hamilton tried his hand with The Ram, a story too prolix and confused, best remembered for the remark, 'Ram, my friend, begin at the beginning!' Indeed, the narrative style of the Ram is lacking in lucidity! Then came The Arabian Nights, translated by Monsieur Galland. Nobody has translated The Arabian Nights so well as Galland. His is the reverse of a scientific rendering, but it is as pleasantly readable as the Iliad and Odyssey would be if Alexandre Dumas had kept his promise to translate Homer. Galland omitted the verses and a great number of passages which nobody would miss, though the anthropologist is supposed to find them valuable and instructive in later scientific translations which do not amuse. Later, Persian Tales, Tales of the Sea, and original inventions, more or less on the fairy model, were composed by industrious men and women. They are far too long-are novels, indeed, and would please no child or mature person of taste. All these were collected in the vast Fairy Cabinet, published in 1786, just before the Revolution. Probably their attempt to be simple charmed a society which was extremely artificial, talked about 'the simple life' and the 'state of nature, ' and was on the eve of a revolution in which human nature revealed her most primitive traits in orgies of blood.

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The violet fairy book, ed. by A. Lang

Andrew Lang

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