Essays in Little

by Andrew Lang

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About this book

Essays in Little is a book by Andrew Lang. The preface says that five of the essays are new and were written for this volume. The preface names the paper on Mr. R. L. Stevenson, the Letter to a Young Journalist, the study of Mr. Kipling, the note on Homer, and The Last Fashionable Novel as the new ones.

The contents list headings including Thackeray, Dickens, Adventures of Buccaneers, The Sagas and Charles Kingsley. The text says a dog asked other dogs to come and stay, that twelve came, making thirteen in all, and that the old butler wanted to turn them adrift, and Dumas consented, and repented. Under the heading Thackeray, a passage says Mr. Thackeray wrote in his Letters to Mrs. Brookfield, after visiting the crypt of Canterbury Cathedral, that he thought how some people's towering intellects and splendid cultivated geniuses rise upon simple, beautiful foundations hidden out of sight.

About the author

Andrew Lang

The Blue Fairy Book of 1889 did well enough for Longmans, Green to keep the series running for a quarter of a century, and Andrew Lang put his name to twenty-five volumes, The Yellow Fairy Book among them in 1894. Much of the labour was his wife's.