Letters to Dead Authors
Andrew Lang
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With twenty two letters, addressed to various already deceased authors, Andrew Lang discusses literary subjects with his usual humour and acidity. The impulse for the writing of the letters came, almost as a joke, from the editor of the 'St. James's Gazette,' and sixteen of the letters collected in the volume appeared first in that journal. According to the author, "some of the Letters are written rather to suit the Correspondent than to express the writer's own taste or opinions"; in all of them, though, the reader will find the charming wit of their author. (Summary by Leni) (4 hr 36 min)
Chapters
To W. M. Thackeray | 9:35 | Read by Brian Mansi |
To Charles Dickens | 13:26 | Read by Wendy Almeida |
To Pierre de Ronsard (Prince of Poets) | 16:29 | Read by Martin Geeson |
To Herodotus | 12:00 | Read by Timothy Ferguson |
Epistle to Mr. Alexander Pope | 10:12 | Read by Martin Geeson |
To Lucian of Samosata | 11:41 | Read by Algy Pug |
To Maitre Francoys Rabelais | 13:23 | Read by Martin Geeson |
To Jane Austen | 10:12 | Read by Michele Eaton |
To Master Isaak Walton | 14:22 | Read by Greg Giordano |
To M. Chapelain | 17:20 | Read by Martin Geeson |
To Sir John Manndeville, Kt. | 12:51 | Read by Martin Geeson |
To Alexandre Dumas | 9:47 | Read by Eden Rea-Hedrick |
To Theocritus | 14:54 | Read by Martin Geeson |
To Edgar Allan Poe | 13:37 | Read by Greg Giordano |
To Sir Walter Scott, Bart. | 11:22 | Read by Jacob Paul Starr |
To Eusebius of Caesarea | 16:09 | Read by Martin Geeson |
To Percy Bysshe Shelley | 11:47 | Read by Jacob Paul Starr |
To Monsieur de Moliére, Valet de Chambre du Roi | 15:57 | Read by Martin Geeson |
To Robert Burns | 11:15 | Read by Algy Pug |
To Lord Byron | 11:00 | Read by Martin Geeson |
To Omar Kha'yya'm | 5:36 | Read by Algy Pug |
To Q. Horatius Flaccus | 13:46 | Read by Leni |