The Lilac Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - 'What cases are you engaged in at present?' 'Are you stopping many teeth just now?' 'What people have you converted lately?' Do ladies put these questions to the men - lawyers, dentists, clergymen, and so forth - who happen to sit next them at dinner parties? I do not know whether ladies thus indicate their interest in the occupations of their casual neighbours at the hospitable board. But if they do not know me, or do not know me well, they generally ask 'Are you writing anything now?' (as if they should ask a painter 'Are you painting anything now?' or a lawyer 'Have you any cases at present?'). Sometimes they are more definite and inquire 'What are you writing now?' as if I must be writing something - which, indeed, is the case, though I dislike being reminded of it. It is an awkward question, because the fair being does not care a bawbee what I am writing; nor would she be much enlightened if I replied 'Madam, I am engaged on a treatise intended to prove that Normal is prior to Conceptional Totemism' - though that answer would be as true in fact as obscure in significance. The best plan seems to be to answer that I have entirely abandoned mere literature, and am contemplating a book on 'The Causes of Early Blight in the Potato, ' a melancholy circumstance which threatens to deprive us of our chief esculent root.
Dr. Mary Alice Trent, a native of the USA, earned her PhD. in Rhetoric and Composition Studies, Linguistics, Early American, and British Literature from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 1995 and is Professor of English at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, OK (USA). Along with poetry, story, and scholarly journal publications, her book credits include Ethics in the 21st Century America and Religion, Culture, Curriculum, and Diversity in 21st Century America (co-edited). Along with presenting and chairing sessions at over 38 regional, national and international conferences, she has traveled and written in eleven Western European countries. Co-Editors Dr. Trevor Grizzle is Professor of Graduate Theology at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, OK (USA). He is Founder and Pastor of Hope International Ministries, and he has presented papers and conducted mission trips across the United States and around the world. Dr. Andrew Lang is a Professor of Mathematics at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, OK (USA). Born in the UK he read mathematical physics at the University of Kent, Canterbury. He has lived in the US since 1992, receiving his PhD in mathematics from the University of Missouri in 1998. Dr. Elsa Rogers, a native of Trinidad, earned her PhD. in Rhetoric and Composition from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and is the Chair of Liberal Arts and Applied Psychology at Hodges University in Fort Myers, Florida (USA). She has written and presented papers at regional and national conferences in the areas of language and literature.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780486219073 |
| ISBN 10 | 0486219070 |
| Title | The Lilac Fairy Book |
| Author | Andrew Lang |
| Series | Dover Children's Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Dover Publications Inc. |
| Year published | 2003-03-28 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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