Part 1 begins when Norman Leslie flees Fife after becoming involved in a violent incident and travels to France, where he encounters the mysterious friar Brother Thomas and survive...
Part 2 opens with the coronation of Charles VII at Reims and the lighter episode of Elliot’s missing monkey, but the narrative darkens when Norman returns to the war. Norman and a...
Andrew Lang’s Angling Sketches is a collection of humorous and reflective essays and tales inspired by fishing journeys, childhood memories, natural scenery, and local legends ass...
Part 1 begins with an introduction to the French ballade and its revival in English poetry, followed by poems about books, classical literature, love, the seasons, wisdom, wealth, ...
Part 2 opens with poems about fortunate islands, former schools, lost affection, and middle age before expanding into reflections on summer, Christmas, homeland, travel, literature...
Andrew Lang’s Ballades and Verses Vain is a selected collection that draws upon French fixed verse while ranging across books, literature, love, the seasons, mortality, classical ...
Andrew Lang’s Ban and Arrière Ban is a collection that rallies poems previously scattered through magazines, newspapers, and other books, bringing together history, legend, love, ...
Andrew Lang’s Books and Bookmen is a humorous collection of literary essays exploring the passions, eccentricities, histories, and legends associated with antiquarian books and th...
Andrew Lang’s Essays in Little is a collection of literary essays that discusses writers and works ranging from Alexandre Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thackeray, Dickens, Walter...
Andrew Lang’s Helen of Troy is a long narrative poem based on Greek mythology that explores love, desire, divine intervention, and the devastating war and suffering they bring upo...
Part 1 begins with the missionary Thomas Gowles, whose absolute confidence in his own beliefs leads him to mistake an isolated community for ignorant savages and to impose his reli...
Part 2 opens in a prehistoric society where Why-Why challenges inherited customs and the authority of medicine men, pursues love and individual freedom, and discovers that even rat...
Andrew Lang’s Introduction to The Compleat Angler is a biographical and critical essay that examines the life, character, and literary achievement of Izaak Walton while explaining...
Andrew Lang’s Letters on Literature is a collection of literary criticism written in an informal epistolary style, addressing readers directly while discussing poetry, fiction, cl...
Part 1 opens with letters to Thackeray and Dickens, examining their characterization, social satire, popular reputation, and continuing influence with a mixture of admiration, affe...
Part 2 begins with the energetic romances of Alexandre Dumas and the pastoral poetry of Theocritus, considering how works from very different periods and genres continue to provide...
Andrew Lang’s Lost Leaders is a collection of brief essays ranging from Scottish rivers, angling, golf, and winter sports to literature, art, dining, social customs, and the oddit...