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The Story of Joan of ArcAndrew Lang The Story of Joan of Arc CHAPTER I. THE CHILDHOOD OF JOAN OF ARC JOAN OF ARC was perhaps the most wonderful person who ever lived in the world. The story of her life is so strange that we could scarcely believe it to be true, if ali that happened to her had not...

The Valet's Tragedy, and Other StudiesAndrew Lang The Valet's Tragedy, and Other Studies PREFACE These studies in secret history follow no chronological order. The affair of James de la Cloche only attracted the author’s attention after most of the volume was in print. But any reader curious in t...

XXXII Ballades in Blue China [1885]Andrew Lang XXXII Ballades in Blue China [1885] A BALLADE OF XXXII BALLADES Friend, when you bear a care-dulled eye,And brow perplexed with things of weight,And fain would bid some charm untieThe bonds that hold you all too strait,Behold a solace to your fate,Wr...

The Red Fairy BookThe Red Fairy Book PREFACE IN a second gleaning of the fields of Fairy Land we cannot expect to find a second Perrault. But there are good stories enough left, and it is hoped that some in the Red Fairy Book may have the attraction of being less familiar than many of the old fri...

The Blue Poetry BookVarious The Blue Poetry Book 7th. Ed INTRODUCTION The purpose of this Collection is to put before children, and young people, poems which are good in themselves, and especially fitted to live, as Theocritus says, ‘on the lips of the young.’ The Editor has been guided to a grea...

Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great UnknownAndrew Lang Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown PREFACE It is with some hesitation that I give my husband’s last book to the world. It was in type when he died, but he had no time to correct even the first proofs, and doubtless he would have made man...

Homer and His AgeAndrew Lang Homer and His Age PREFACE In Homer and the Epic, ten or twelve years ago, I examined the literary objections to Homeric unity. These objections are chiefly based on alleged discrepancies in the narrative, of which no one poet, it is supposed, could have been guilty. T...

The Book of Princes and PrincessesMrs. Lang The Book of Princes and Princesses PREFACE All the stories about Princes and Princesses in this book are true stories, and were written by Mrs. Lang, out of old books of history. There are some children who make life difficult by saying, first that stor...

Social Origins and Primal LawJ. J. Atkinson Social Origins and Primal Law TOANNABELLA ALLEYNEDear Annie, As you first pointed out to me the facts which are the germ of my Theory of the Origin of Totemism, you are one cause of my share in this book. The other is affection for the memory of the aut...

The Secret of the TotemAndrew Lang The Secret of the Totem INTRODUCTION This book is the natural sequel of Social Origins and Primal Law, published three years ago. In Primal Law, Mr. J. J. Atkinson sought for the origin of marriage prohibitions in the social conditions of early man, as conceived...