Letters to Dead Authors

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Epistolary Fiction

Authors: Andrew Lang In Year : 1886

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Letters to Dead Authors

To W. M. Thackeray
To Charles Dickens
To Pierre de Ronsard (Prince of Poets)
To Herodotus
Epistle to Mr. Alexander Pope
To Lucian of Samosata
To Maitre Francoys Rabelais
To Jane Austen
To Master Isaak Walton
To M. Chapelain
To Sir John Manndeville, Kt.
To Alexandre Dumas
To Theocritus
To Edgar Allan Poe
To Sir Walter Scott, Bart.
To Eusebius of Caesarea
To Percy Bysshe Shelley
To Monsieur de Moliére, Valet de Chambre du Roi
To Robert Burns
To Lord Byron
To Omar Kha'yya'm
To Q. Horatius Flaccus

With twenty two letters, addressed to various already deceased authors, Andrew Lang discusses literary subjects with his usual humour and acidity. The impulse for the writing of the letters came, almost as a joke, from the editor of the 'St. James's Gazette,' and sixteen of the letters collected in the volume appeared first in that journal. According to the author, "some of the Letters are written rather to suit the Correspondent than to express the writer's own taste or opinions"; in all of them, though, the reader will find the charming wit of their author. (Summary by Leni)