In the Wrong Paradise, and Other Stories
by Andrew Lang
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About This Book
Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon made a reputation as one of the ablest and most versatile writers of the day. Lang was one of the founders of the study of "Psychical Research," and his other writings on anthropology include The Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897), Magic and Religion (1901) and The Secret of the Totem (1905). He was a Homeric scholar of conservative views. Other works incl...
Chapters (29)
- In the Wrong Paradise and Other Stories by Andrew Lang
- DEDICATION.
- PREFACE.
- THE END OF PHÆACIA
- I. INTRODUCTORY. {1}
- II. NARRATIVE OF MR. GOWLES. {6}
- III. THE PROPHECY.
- IV. AT THE CHIEF’S HOUSE.
- V. A STRANGER ARRIVES.
- VI. A BACKSLIDER. A WARNING.
- VII. FLIGHT.
- VIII. SAVED!
- IN THE WRONG PARADISE AN OCCIDENTAL APOLOGUE.
- A CHEAP NIGGER.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- THE ROMANCE OF THE FIRST RADICAL.
- A PREHISTORIC APOLOGUE.
- THE YOUTH OF WHY-WHY.
- THE MANHOOD OF WHY-WHY.
- THE LOVES OF VERVA AND WHY-WHY.
- LA MORT WHY-WHY.
- A DUCHESS’S SECRET.
- THE HOUSE OF STRANGE STORIES.
- IN CASTLE PERILOUS.
- THE GREAT GLADSTONE MYTH. {283}
- MY FRIEND THE BEACH-COMBER.
- Footnotes:
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