The Red True Story Book - Couverture souple

Lang, Andrew

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1545581517 ISBN 13 : 9781545581513

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books are a series of twenty-five collections of true and fictional stories for children, published between 1889 and 1913. The best known books of the series are the twelve collections of fairy tales, known as Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's Fairy Books of Many Colors. In all, the volumes feature 798 stories, besides the 153 poems in The Blue Poetry Book.
Contains thirty true stories, mainly drawn from European history. Includes the life of Joan of Arc and the Jacobite uprising of 1745.
Stories Included Within This Book:
Wilson's Last Fight
The Life and Death of Joan the Maid
How the Bass was held for King James
The Crowning of Ines de Castro
The Story of Orthon
How Gustavus Vasa won his Kingdom
Monsieur de Bayard's Duel
Story of Gudbrand of the Dales
Sir Richard Grenville
The Story of Molly Pitcher
The Voyages, Dangerous Adventures, and Imminent Escapes of Captain Richard Falconer
Marbot's March
Eylau. The Mare Lisette
How Marbot crossed the Danube
The Piteous Death of Gaston, Son of the Count of Foix
Rolf Stake
The Wreck of the 'Wager'
Peter Williamson
A Wonderful Voyage
The Pitcairn Islanders
A Relation of three years' Suffering of Robert Everard upon the Island of Assada, near Madagascar, in a voyage to India, in the year 1686
The Fight at Svolder Island
The Death of Hacon the Good
Prince Charlie's War
The Burke and Wills Exploring Expedition
The Story of Emund
The Man in White
The Adventures of 'The Bull of Earlstoun'
The Story of Grisell Baillie's Sheep's Head
The Conquest of Peru

Biographie de l'auteur :

Lang was born in Selkirk. He was the eldest of the eight children born to John Lang, the town clerk of Selkirk, and his wife Jane Plenderleath Sellar, who was the daughter of Patrick Sellar, factor to the first duke of Sutherland. On 17 April 1875, he married Leonora Blanche Alleyne, youngest daughter of C. T. Alleyne of Clifton and Barbados. She was (or should have been) variously credited as author, collaborator, or translator of Lang's Color/Rainbow Fairy Books which he edited.
He was educated at Selkirk Grammar School, Loretto, and at the Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews University and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took a first class in the final classical schools in 1868, becoming a fellow and subsequently honorary fellow of Merton College. He soon made a reputation as one of the most able and versatile writers of the day as a journalist, poet, critic, and historian. In 1906, he was elected FBA.
He died of angina pectoris at the Tor-na-Coille Hotel in Banchory, Banchory, survived by his wife. He was buried in the cathedral precincts at St Andrews.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1545581517
• ISBN 13: 9781545581513
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 180