Historical Mysteries - Lang, Andrew
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First published in 1904, this volume contains a collection of 12 essays written by Scottish author Andrew Lang dealing with various baffling historical mysteries, including the famous Gowrie conspiracy and much-investigated case of Elizabeth Canning. A fantastic collection of detailed examinations concerning some the world's most unsolvable secrets not to be missed by mystery lovers and those with an interest in true crime and history. Contents include: ¿The Case of Elizabeth Canning¿, ¿The Murder of Escovedö, ¿The Campden Mystery¿, ¿The Case of Allan Breck¿, ¿The Cardinal's Necklace¿, ¿The…mehr

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First published in 1904, this volume contains a collection of 12 essays written by Scottish author Andrew Lang dealing with various baffling historical mysteries, including the famous Gowrie conspiracy and much-investigated case of Elizabeth Canning. A fantastic collection of detailed examinations concerning some the world's most unsolvable secrets not to be missed by mystery lovers and those with an interest in true crime and history. Contents include: ¿The Case of Elizabeth Canning¿, ¿The Murder of Escovedö, ¿The Campden Mystery¿, ¿The Case of Allan Breck¿, ¿The Cardinal's Necklace¿, ¿The Mystery of Kaspar¿, ¿Hauser: The Child of Europe¿, ¿The Gowrie Conspiracy¿, ¿The Strange Case of Daniel Dunglas Home¿, ¿The Case of Captain Green¿, ¿Queen Oglethorpe¿, ¿The Chevalier D'éon¿, ¿Saint-Germain the Deathless¿, etc. Andrew Lang FBA (1844¿1912) was a Scottish novelist, poet, literary critic, and anthropologist most famous for as a collector of fairy tales and folklore. Other notable works by this author include: ¿The Blue Fairy Book¿ (1889), ¿Ballades and Rhymes¿ (1911), and ¿Method in the Study of Totemism¿ (1911). Read & Co. History is proudly republishing this classic work now in a brand new edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.
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Andrew Lang's Fairy Books-also known as Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's Fairy Books of Many Colors-are a series of twelve collections of fairy tales, published between 1889 and 1910. Each volume is distinguished by its own color. In all, 437 tales from a broad range of cultures and countries are presented. Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, and literary critic. Although he did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources, who had collected them originally-with the notable exception of Madame d'Aulnoy-made the collections immensely influential. Lang gave many of the tales their first appearance in English. As acknowledged in the prefaces, although Lang himself made most of the selections, his wife and other translators did a large portion of the translating and retelling of the actual stories. According to Anita Silvey, "The irony of Lang's life and work is that although he wrote for a profession-literary criticism; fiction; poems; books and articles on anthropology, mythology, history, and travel...he is best recognized for the works he did not write."