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)

Chapitres

To W. M. Thackeray 9:35 Lu par Brian Mansi
To Charles Dickens 13:26 Lu par Wendy Almeida
To Pierre de Ronsard (Prince of Poets) 16:29 Lu par Martin Geeson
To Herodotus 12:00 Lu par Timothy Ferguson
Epistle to Mr. Alexander Pope 10:12 Lu par Martin Geeson
To Lucian of Samosata 11:41 Lu par Algy Pug
To Maitre Francoys Rabelais 13:23 Lu par Martin Geeson
To Jane Austen 10:12 Lu par Michele Eaton
To Master Isaak Walton 14:22 Lu par Greg Giordano
To M. Chapelain 17:20 Lu par Martin Geeson
To Sir John Manndeville, Kt. 12:51 Lu par Martin Geeson
To Alexandre Dumas 9:47 Lu par Eden Rea-Hedrick
To Theocritus 14:54 Lu par Martin Geeson
To Edgar Allan Poe 13:37 Lu par Greg Giordano
To Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 11:22 Lu par Jacob Paul Starr
To Eusebius of Caesarea 16:09 Lu par Martin Geeson
To Percy Bysshe Shelley 11:47 Lu par Jacob Paul Starr
To Monsieur de Moliére, Valet de Chambre du Roi 15:57 Lu par Martin Geeson
To Robert Burns 11:15 Lu par Algy Pug
To Lord Byron 11:00 Lu par Martin Geeson
To Omar Kha'yya'm 5:36 Lu par Algy Pug
To Q. Horatius Flaccus 13:46 Lu par Leni