Andrew Lang: 948 books

The Animal Story Book  edited by Andrew Lang who  was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor. This book was published in 1896. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and...

This is the 10th Fairy Books of Many Colours compiled and edited by Andrew Lang. The stories in all the books are borrowed from many countries – Australia, North America, Southern Africa, New Caledonia located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, Persia, Northern Europe, India, South America and beyond. However...

Andrew Lang (1844 – 1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology, best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. “Tiidu the Piper” is a short story by Andrew Lang with an instructive undertone that will be definitely profitable for little...

Jane Plenderleath Sellar, who was the daughter of Patrick Sellar,  factor to the first duke of Sutherland and lawyer.    Andrew Lang helped  Henry Rider Haggard publish his novel “King Solomon’s Mines”, and wrote with him some writings. Thanks to diversity of interests he...

Andrew Lang (1844 – 1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology, best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Gifts of the Magician is a kind short fairy tale by Andrew Lang that focuses on the main figure who is a son of an old widower....

Andrew Lang (31 March 1844 – 20 July 1912) is well-known as a collector of British folk and fairy tales, he was Victorian poet, novelist, academic and critic too. His poem had success, he became famous published Andrew Lang's Fairy Books of Many Colors – series of twelve different colored collections...

Andrew Lang (1844 – 1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology, best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. “The Bird of Truth” is a brief story by Andrew Lang about a fisherman who found two beautiful children in a crystal cradle,...

Andrew Lang, FBA was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him.

When the learned first gave serious attention to popular ballads, from the time of Percy to that of Scott, they laboured under certain disabilities. The Comparative Method was scarcely understood, and was little practised. Editors were content to study the ballads of their own countryside, or, at most,...

Andrew Lang was a Scots poet, novelist, and literary critic. Andrew Lang included The Story of the Yara in The Brown Fairy Book.  Down in the south, where the sun shines so hotly that everything and everybody sleeps all day, and even the great forests seem silent, except early in the morning...

Andrew Lang, a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology, is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him.

Andrew Lang (1844 – 1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology, best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales.  “The Cunning shoemaker” is a short story by Andrew Lang included in “The Pink Fairy Book”. The story relates of a...

Andrew Lang (1844 – 1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology, best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. “The Treasure Seeker” is short adventure story by Andrew Lang where the main figures are a party of shepherds sat one night...