Andrew Lang Books


The Blue Fairy Book

Andrew Lang

The Blue Fairy Book is a part of series by Andrew Lang, (1844 – 1912) a Scottish poet, novelist, and literary critic. Lang contributed to the fields of history, anthropology, and folklore scholarship,..

Adventures among Books

Andrew Lang

Of the Essays in this volume “Adventures among Books,” and “Rab’s Friend,” appeared in Scribner’s Magazine; and “Recollections of Robert Louis Stevenson” (to the best of the author’s memory) in The No..

Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy

Andrew Lang

Persons not much interested in, or cognisant of, “antiquarian old womanries,” as Sir Walter called them, may ask “what all the pother is about,” in this little tractate.  On my side it is “about”..

Homer and His Age

Andrew Lang

Homer and His Age is a biographical work by 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 alle..

The Book of Dreams and Ghosts

Andrew Lang

The Book of Dreams and Ghosts is a collection of stories by Andrew Lang. The chief purpose of this book is, if fortune helps, to entertain people interested in the kind of narratives here collected.&n..

Historical Mysteries

Andrew Lang

These Essays, which appeared, with two exceptions, in The Cornhill Magazine, 1904, have been revised, and some alterations, corrections, and additions have been made in them. 'Queen Oglethorpe,' in wh..

The Brown Fairy Book

Andrew Lang

The Brown Fairy Book, the ninth in Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Book series, was originally published in 1904. This edition contains all 32 of the original stories and all 50 of the original black-a..

Helen of Troy

Andrew Lang

Helen of Troy is a collection of poems for children compiled by Andrew Lang,  a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known ..