'That Very Mab': A Fiction and Literature Classic By Andrew Lang! AAA+++

by ANDREW LANG, BDP (Editor)

Overview

Our story begins with Queen Mab (see Romeo and Juliet), the British ex-pat who has had a lovely life on the isolated and primitive island of Samoa, but is disturbed by an invasion of British missionaries and conquesting Germans. Distraught and distressed, that very Mab rides a seagull to return to her British homeland to see how things have fared during her 200 year (more or less) absence.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014687102
Publisher:	BDP
Publication date:	07/04/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	111 KB

About the Author

Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews University and at Balliol College, Oxford. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon made a reputation as one of the ablest and most versatile writers of the day. Lang was one of the founders of the study of "Psychical Research, " and his other writings on anthropology include The Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897), Magic and Religion (1901) and The Secret of the Totem (1905). He was a Homeric scholar of conservative views. Other works include Homer and the Epic (1893); a prose translation of The Homeric Hymns (1899), with literary and mythological essays in which he draws parallels between Greek myths and other mythologies; and Homer and his Age (1906). He also wrote Ballades in Blue China (1880) and Rhymes à la Mode (1884).