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Letters to Dead Authors

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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