Download Adventures Among Books by Andrew Lang. Literary essays from the scholar and folklorist behind the Fairy Books. Available in PDF, EPUB, and MOBI formats.
Adventures Among Books Summary
Adventures Among Books by Andrew Lang is a collection of essays on literature, myth, biography, and criticism. With insight and wit, Lang reflects on authors such as Scott, Dickens, Thackeray, and Homer, while also championing children’s literature and the power of imaginative storytelling. This is a reader’s book, written by a lifelong lover of words.
Adventures Among Books Excerpt
Short Summary: Lang roams through the literary landscape, celebrating books not only for their beauty or prestige, but for their companionship, mystery, and delight.
"A good book is an event, not a thing. It alters the way the world looks."
With his usual grace and gentle irony, Lang champions writers both classic and forgotten. He defends childhood reading, explores the creation of literary legends, and considers the joy of wandering through Homer’s verses as well as Victorian novels. Each essay is a window into the author's personal library of ideas.
Lang’s prose is both scholarly and warm. He moves easily from Greek epic to English satire, never afraid to indulge his love for stories that spark wonder. There is as much reverence for fiction as for fact, and always the belief that books shape the soul as much as the intellect.
A love letter to literature in all its forms, Adventures Among Books invites us to look again at the shelves around us—and read more deeply, more joyfully, more freely.
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