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Andrew Lang
(1844–1912)
British poet, novelist, literary critic, contributor to anthropology, collector of folk and fairy tales
This author wrote articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB9 by the initials "A. L."
This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
Articles written by this author are designated in the DNB by the initials "A. L."

This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB1911 by the initials "A. L."

Andrew Lang

Works

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  • St Leonards Magazine (1863) (includes contributions by Lang)
  • The Ballads and Lyrics of Old France (1872) (external scan)
  • The Odyssey Of Homer Rendered Into English Prose (1879) translator with Samuel Henry Butcher
  • The Folklore of France (1878)
  • XXXII Ballades in Blue China (1880) (external scan)
  • Oxford. Brief historical & descriptive notes (1880)
  • Theocritus, Bion and Moschus. Rendered into English Prose with an Introductory Essay. (1880)
  • Notes by Mr A. Lang on a collection of pictures by Mr J. E. Millais R.A. exhibited at the Fine Arts Society Rooms. 148 New Bond Street. (1881)
  • The Library: with a chapter on modern illustrated books. (1881) (transcription project)
  • The Black Thief. A new and original drama (Adapted from the Irish) in four acts. (1882)
  • Helen of Troy, her life and translation. Done into rhyme from the Greek books. (1882)
  • The Most Pleasant and Delectable Tale of the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche (1882) with William Aldington
  • The Iliad of Homer, a prose translation (1883) with Walter Leaf and Ernest Myers
  • Custom and Myth (1884)
  • The Princess Nobody: A Tale of Fairyland (1884)
  • Ballads and Verses Vain (1884) selected by Austin Dobson
  • Rhymes à la Mode (1884)
  • Much Darker Days. By A. Huge Longway. (1884) (external scan)
  • Household tales; their origin, diffusion, and relations to the higher myths [1884]
  • That Very Mab (1885) with May Kendall
  • The Politics of Aristotle. Introductory Essays (1886) (external scan)
  • Books and Bookmen (1886)
  • Letters to Dead Authors (1886)
  • In the Wrong Paradise (1886)
  • The Mark of Cain (1886)
  • Lines on the inaugural meeting of the Shelley Society. (1886)
  • Almae matres (1887)
  • He (1887), with Walter Herries Pollock)
  • Aucassin and Nicolette (1887)
  • Myth, Ritual, and Religion (2 vols., 1887)
  • Johnny Nut and the Golden Goose. Done into English from the French of Charles Deulin (1887)
  • Grass of Parnassus. Rhymes old and new (1888)
  • Perrault's Popular Tales (1888)
  • Gold of Fairnilee (1888)
  • Pictures at Play or Dialogues of the Galleries (1888), with William Ernest Henley
  • Prince Prigio (1889)
  • Letters on Literature (1889)
  • Lost Leaders (1889)
  • "Ode to Golf", in On the Links; being Golfing Stories by various hands (1889)
  • The Dead Leman and other tales from the French (1889), translator with Paul Sylvester
  • The World's Desire (1890), with Henry Rider Haggard
  • Old Friends: Essays in Epistolary Parody (1890)
  • The Strife of Love in a Dream, Being the Elizabethan Version of the First Book of the Hypnerotomachia of Francesco Colonna (1890)
  • The Life, Letters and Diaries of Sir Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh (1890)
  • Etudes traditionnistes (1890)
  • How to Fail in Literature (1890)
  • Essays in Little (1891)
  • On Calais Sands (1891)
  • Angling Sketches (1891)
  • The Library with a Chapter on Modern English Illustrated Books (1892), with Austin Dobson
  • William Young Sellar (1892)
  • Homer and the Epic (1893)
  • Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia (1893)
  • St. Andrews (1893)
  • Montezuma's Daughter (1893) with Henry Rider Haggard
  • Kirk's Secret Commonwealth (1893)
  • The Tercentenary of Izaak Walton (1893)
  • Ban and Arrière Ban (1894)
  • Cock Lane and Common-Sense (1894)
  • Memoir of R. F. Murray (1894)
  • My Own Fairy Book (1895)
  • A Monk of Fife (1895)
  • The Voices of Jeanne D'Arc (1895)
  • The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (1896), in 2 vols.
  • Pickle the Spy; or the Incognito of Charles (1897)
  • The Nursery Rhyme Book (1897)
  • The Miracles of Madame Saint Katherine of Fierbois (1897) translator
  • A Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897)
  • Modern Mythology (1897) (external scan)
  • The Companions of Pickle (1898)
  • The Arabian Nights Entertainments (1898) (transcription project)
  • The Making of Religion (external scan)
  • Selections from Coleridge (1898)
  • Waiting on the Glesca Train (1898)
  • Parson Kelly (1899), co-written with William Ernest Henley
  • The Homeric Hymns (1899) translator
  • Prince Charles Edward (1900)
  • A History of Scotland – From the Roman Occupation (1900–1907), in 4 vols.
  • Notes and Names in Books (1900)
  • Alfred Tennyson (1901)
  • Magic and Religion (1901)
  • Adventures Among Books (1901)
  • The Mystery of Mary Stuart (1901)
  • The Disentanglers (1902)
  • James VI and the Gowrie Mystery (1902)
  • Notre-Dame of Paris (1902) translator
  • The Young Ruthvens (1902)
  • Lyrics (1903)
  • The Story of the Golden Fleece (1903)
  • The Valet's Tragedy (1903)
  • Social Origins (1903) with Primal Law by James Jasper Atkinson
  • The Snowman and Other Fairy Stories (1903)
  • Stella Fregelius: A Tale of Three Destinies (1903) with Henry Rider Haggard
  • Historical Mysteries (1904)
  • The Secret of the Totem (1905)
  • New Collected Rhymes (1905)
  • John Knox and the Reformation (1905)
  • The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot (1905)
  • The Clyde Mystery. A Study in Forgeries and Folklore (1905)
  • Adventures among Books (1905)
  • Homer and His Age (1906)
  • The Portraits and Jewels of Mary Stuart (1906)
  • Life of Sir Walter Scott (1906)
  • The Story of Joan of Arc (1906)
  • New and Old Letters to Dead Authors (1906)
  • Tales of a Fairy Court (1907)
  • The King over the Water (1907)
  • Tales of Troy and Greece (1907)
  • The Origins of Religion (1908) essays
  • The Book of Princes and Princesses (1908)
  • Origins of Terms of Human Relationships (1908)
  • The Maid of France, being the story of the life and death of Jeanne d'Arc (1908) (external scan)
  • Three Poets of French Bohemia (1908)
  • The Marvellous Musician and Other Stories (1909)
  • Sir George Mackenzie King's Advocate, of Rosehaugh, His Life and Times (1909)
  • Does Ridicule Kill? (1910)
  • Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy (1910)
  • The World of Homer (1910)
  • The All Sorts of Stories Book (1911)
  • Ballades and Rhymes (1911)
  • Method in the Study of Totemism (1911)
  • The Book of Saints and Heroes (1912)
  • Shakespeare, Bacon and the Great Unknown (1912)
  • A History of English Literature (1912)
  • In Praise of Frugality (1912)
  • Ode on a Distant Memory of Jane Eyre (1912)
  • Ode to the Opening Century (1912)

Posthumous

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  • Highways and Byways in The Border (1913) with John Lang
  • The Strange Story Book (1913) with Mrs. Lang
  • The Poetical Works (1923) edited by Mrs. Lang, in 4 vols.
  • Old Friends Among the Fairies: Puss in Boots and Other Stories. Chosen from the Fairy Books (1926)
  • Tartan Tales From Andrew Lang (1928) edited by Bertha L. Gunterman
  • From Omar Khayyam (1935)

As editor

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'Coloured' fairy books

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Other 'coloured' books

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Other

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Contributions to EB9

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Contributions to the DNB

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Contributions to EB1911

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Contributions to Folk-Lore

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Poetry

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Other

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Works about Lang

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Reviews

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Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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