The Collected Works of Andrew Lang E-Book

Andrew Lang

• Herausgeber: PergamonMedia
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Serie: Highlights of World Literature
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Seitenzahl: 26785

Beschreibung

This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - 30270 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • The Blue Fairy Book • The Arabian Nights Entertainments • Highways and Byways in The Border and John Lang • The Fairy Books of • Myth, Ritual and Religion • The Yellow Fairy Book • The Violet Fairy Book • The Pink Fairy Book • The ic Hymns • The Brown Fairy Book • The Odyssey of, Done into English Prose • The Crimson Fairy Book • The Lilac Fairy Book • The Orange Fairy Book • Tales of Troy and Greece • A Short History of Scotland • Custom and Myth • The Lilac Fairy Book • The Book of Dreams and Ghosts • The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. Robert Louis Stevenson • The Brown Fairy Book • Magic and Religion • Modern Mythology • Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles • Historical Mysteries • The Book of Princes and PrincessesMrs. Lang • The Library • The World's Desire and H. Rider Haggard • John Knox and the Reformation • Letters to Dead Authors • Anne of GeiersteinWalter Scott • and His Age • Helen of Troy • The Mystery of Mary Stuart • Essays in Little • He and Walter Herries Pollock • The Orange Fairy BookVarious • Conversation: Its Faults and Its Graces • Adventures Among Books • Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. (of ) • The Making of Religion • Cock Lane and Common-Sense • In the Wrong Paradise • Books and Bookmen • Custom and Myth • Lost Leaders • James VI and the Gowrie Mystery • Ballades in Blue China, and Verses and Translations • A Monk of Fife • Tales of Troy: Ulysses, the Sacker of Cities

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

PRINCE RICARDO OF PANTOUFLIA

DEDICATION. To Guy Campbell.

Introductory. Explaining Matters.

CHAPTER I. The Troubles of King Prigio.

CHAPTER II. Princess Jaqueline Drinks the Moon.

CHAPTER III. The Adventure of the Shopkeepers.

CHAPTER IV. Two Lectures.

CHAPTER V. Prince Ricardo Crosses the Path of History.

CHAPTER VI. Ricardo’s Repentance.

CHAPTER VII. Prince Ricardo and an Old Enemy.

CHAPTER VIII. The Giant who does not know when he has had Enough. [146]

CHAPTER IX. Prigio has an Idea.

CHAPTER X. The End.

LONGINUS ON THE SUBLIME

TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE

ANALYSIS

INTRODUCTION

TREATISE ON THE SUBLIME

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FOOTNOTES

NOTES ON LONGINUS

APPENDIX

SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LESS KNOWN WRITERS MENTIONED IN THE TREATISE ON THE SUBLIME

PICKLE THE SPY or The Incognito of Prince Charles

PREFACE

CHAPTER I - INTRODUCTORY TO PICKLE

CHAPTER II - CHARLES EDWARD STUART

CHAPTER III - THE PRINCE IN FAIRYLAND - FEBRUARY 1749-SEPTEMBER 1750 - I. WHAT THE WORLD SAID

CHAPTER IV - THE PRINCE IN FAIRYLAND. II. - WHAT ACTUALLY OCCURRED

CHAPTER V - THE PRINCE IN LONDON; AND AFTER. - MADEMOISELLE LUCI (SEPTEMBER 1750-JULY 1751)

CHAPTER VI - INTRIGUES, POLITICAL AND AMATORY. DEATH OF MADEMOISELLE LUCI, 1752

CHAPTER VII - YOUNG GLENGARRY

NOTE.

CHAPTER VIII - PICKLE AND THE ELIBANK PLOT

CHAPTER IX - DE PROFUNDIS

CHAPTER X - JAMES MOHR MACGREGOR

CHAPTER XI - ‘A MAN UNDONE.’ 1754

CHAPTER XII - PICKLE AS A HIGHLAND CHIEF. 1755-1757

CHAPTER XIII - THE LAST HOPE. 1759

CHAPTER XIV - CONCLUSION

THE PUZZLE OF DICKENS’S LAST PLOT

INTRODUCTION

THE STORY

Dramatis Personæ

Opening of the Tale

Sapsea and Durdles

The Landlesses

Mr. Grewgious

The Unaccountable Expedition

Purpose of the Expedition

Christmas Eve

After the Disappearance

Dick Datchery

Jasper, Rosa, and Tartar

Jasper’s Opium Visions

Datchery and the Opium Woman

Datchery’s Score

THEORIES OF THE MYSTERY

Forster’s Evidence

“A New Idea”

Mr. Proctor’s Theory

A Mistaken Theory

Another Way

Dickens’s Unused Draft of a Chapter

A Question of Taste

Mr. Proctor’s Theory Continued

Mr. Cuming Walters’s Theory

Evidence of Collins’s Drawings

Mr. Walters’s Theory Continued

Who was the Princess Puffer?

Who was Jasper?

CONCLUSION

OLD FRIENDS

PREFACE

CONTENTS

p. 1FRIENDS IN FICTION

p. 27I.

p. 31II.

p. 37III.

p. 42IV.

p. 49V.

p. 55VI.

p. 64VII.

p. 75VIII.

p. 82IX.

p. 90X.

p. 97XI.

p. 102XII.

p. 113XIII.

p. 120XIV.

p. 123XV.

p. 135XVI.

p. 139XVII.

p. 144XVIII.

p. 153XIX.

p. 156XX.

p. 167XXI.

p. 178XXII.

p. 189XXIII.

p. 197APPENDIX

PARSON KELLY

PREFACE

CONTENTS

PARSON KELLY

CHAPTER I

THE PARSON EXPRESSES IRREPROACHABLE SENTIMENTS AT THE MAZARIN PALACE

CHAPTER II

MR. WOGAN REFUSES TO ACKNOWLEDGE AN UNDESIRABLE ACQUAINTANCE IN ST. JAMES'S STREET

CHAPTER III

MR. WOGAN INSTRUCTS THE IGNORANT PARSON IN THE WAYS OF WOMEN

CHAPTER IV

SHOWS THE EXTREME DANGER OF KNOWING LATIN

CHAPTER V

A LITERARY DISCUSSION IN WHICH A CRITIC, NOT FOR THE FIRST TIME, TURNS THE TABLES UPON AN AUTHOR

CHAPTER VI

MR. NICHOLAS WOGAN REMINDS THE PARSON OF A NIGHT AT THE MAZARIN PALACE

CHAPTER VII

LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU HAS A WORD TO SAY ABOUT SMILINDA

CHAPTER VIII

MR. KELLY HAS AN ADVENTURE AT A MASQUERADE BALL

CHAPTER IX

WHEREIN THE CHIVALROUS MR. KELLY BEHAVES WITH DEPLORABLE FOLLY

CHAPTER X

WHAT CAME OF MR. KELLY'S WINNINGS FROM THE SOUTH SEA

CHAPTER XI

THE PARSON DEPARTS FROM SMILINDA AND LEARNS A NUMBER OF UNPALATABLE TRUTHS

CHAPTER XII

THE PARSON MEETS SCROPE FOR THE THIRD TIME, AND WHAT CAME OF THE MEETING

CHAPTER XIII

OF THE ROSE AND THE ROSE-GARDEN IN AVIGNON.

CHAPTER XIV

OF THE GREAT CONFUSION PRODUCED BY A BALLAD AND A DRUNKEN CROW

CHAPTER XV

AT THE DEANERY OF WESTMINSTER

CHAPTER XVI

MR. WOGAN ACTS AS LIGHTNING-CONDUCTOR AT LADY OXFORD'S ROUT

CHAPTER XVII

LADY OXFORD'S 'COUP DE THÉÂTRE.'

CHAPTER XVIII

WHEREIN A NEW FLY DISCOURSES ON THE INNOCENCE OF THE SPIDER'S WEB

CHAPTER XIX

STROKE AND COUNTER-STROKE

CHAPTER XX

MR. SCROPE BATHES BY MOONLIGHT AND IN HIS PERUKE

CHAPTER XXI

IN WHICH MR. KELLY SURPRISES SMILINDA

CHAPTER XXII

AN ECLOGUE WHICH DEMONSTRATES THE PASTORAL SIMPLICITY OF CORYDON AND STREPHON

CHAPTER XXIII

HOW THE MESSENGERS CAPTURED THE WRONG GENTLEMAN; AND OF WHAT LETTERS THE COLONEL BURNED.

CHAPTER XXIV

MR. WOGAN WEARS LADY OXFORD'S LIVERY, BUT DOES NOT REMAIN IN HER SERVICE.

CHAPTER XXV

HOW THE MINIATURE OF LADY OXFORD CAME BY A MISCHANCE.

CHAPTER XXVI

MR. WOGAN TRADUCES HIS FRIEND, WITH THE HAPPIEST CONSEQUENCES

CHAPTER XXVII

HOW, BY KEEPING PAROLE, MR. KELLY BROKE PRISON