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Letters to Dead Authors

by Andrew Lang

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Author
Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912
Credits
Transcribed from the 1886 Longmans, Green, and Co. edition by David Price
Language
English
LoC Class
PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject
Authors, English -- Biography
Category
Text
eBook-No.
1491
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1491
Release Date
October 1, 1998
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.LETTERS TO DEAD AUTHORS
  2. 2.PREFACE.
  3. 3.CONTENTS.
  4. 4.I. To W. M. Thackeray .
  5. 5.II. To Charles Dickens . — III. To Pierre de Ronsard ( PRINCE OF POETS )
  6. 6.IV. To Herodotus .
  7. 7.V. Epistle to Mr. Alexander Pope .
  8. 8.VI. To Lucian of Samosata .
  9. 9.VII. To Maître Françoys Rabelais . OF THE COMING OF THE COQCIGRUES.
  10. 10.VIII. To Jane Austen .
  11. 11.IX. To Master Isaak Walton .
  12. 12.X. To M. Chapelain .
  13. 13.XI. To Sir John Maundeville , Kt. ( OF THE WAYS INTO YNDE .)
  14. 14.XII. To Alexandre Dumas .
  15. 15.XIII. To Theocritus .
  16. 16.XIV. To Edgar Allan Poe .
  17. 17.XV. To Sir Walter Scott , Bart.
  18. 18.XVI. To Eusebius of Cæsarea . ( CONCERNING THE GODS OF THE HEATHEN .)
  19. 19.XVII. To Percy Bysshe Shelley .
  20. 20.XVIII. To Monsieur de Molière , Valet de Chambre du Roi .
  21. 21.XIX. To Robert Burns .
  22. 22.XX. To Lord Byron .
  23. 23.XXI. To Omar Khayyâm .
  24. 24.XXII. To Q. Horatius Flaccus .
  25. 25.FOOTNOTES

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