The Book of Saints and Heroes: Volume 24 - Brossura

Lang, Andrew

Brossura

ISBN 10: 154667280X ISBN 13: 9781546672807

Casa editrice: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Riassunto

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.
The Book of Saints and Heroes contains twenty-three stories about saints. Most of these are true stories, although a few legends are also included.
Stories Included Within This Book:
The First of the Hermits
The Roses from Paradise
The Saint with the Lion
Synesius, the Ostrich Hunter
The Struggles of St. Augustine
Germanus the Governor
Malchus the Monk
The Saint on the Pillar
The Apostle of Northumbria
St. Columba
Brendan the Sailor
The Charm Queller
Dunstan the Friend of Kings
St. Margaret of Scotland
St. Elizabeth of Hungary
Saint and King
The Preacher to the Birds
Richard the Bishop
Colette
The Apostle of the Japanese
The Servant of the Poor
The Founder of Hospitals
The Patron Saint of England

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L'autore:

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.

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• Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 154667280X
• ISBN 13: 9781546672807
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 132