Old Friends, Essays in Epistolary Parody


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"Every fancy which dwells much with the unborn and immortal characters of Fiction must ask itself, Did the persons in contemporary novels never meet? In so little a world their paths must often have crossed, their orbits must have intersected, though we hear nothing about the adventure from the accredited narrators. In historical fiction authors make their people meet real men and women of history—Louis XI., Lazarus, Mary Queen of Scots, General Webbe, Moses, the Man in the Iron Mask, Marie Antoinette; the list is endless. But novelists, in spite of Mr. Thackeray’s advice to Alexandre Dumas, and of his own example in “Rebecca and Rowena,” have not introduced each other’s characters" (from the Introduction). In this volume, Andrew Lang shows, what a letter from one fictional character to another might look like. (3 hr 36 min)

Chapitres

Friends in Fiction 27:16 Lu par BettyB
Chapter I 4:21 Lu par Availle
Chapter II 6:03 Lu par Kristin G.
Chapter III 6:02 Lu par Julia Niedermaier
Chapter IV 7:11 Lu par Diella Noffke
Chapter V 6:36 Lu par Availle
Chapter VI 9:38 Lu par Anna Simon
Chapter VII 19:59 Lu par Kristin G.
Chapter VIII 6:32 Lu par Kalynda
Chapter IX 8:55 Lu par TriciaG
Chapter X 7:56 Lu par Larry Wilson
Chapter XI 5:49 Lu par chocmuse
Chapter XII 11:02 Lu par TriciaG
Chapter XIII 7:48 Lu par Crln Yldz Ksr
Chapter XIV 2:37 Lu par Larry Wilson
Chapter XV 12:19 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Chapter XVI 4:27 Lu par Anna Simon
Chapter XVII 5:42 Lu par Availle
Chapter XVIII 9:51 Lu par TriciaG
Chapter XIX 3:59 Lu par Karen Savage
Chapter XX 11:11 Lu par Anna Simon
Chapter XXI 11:53 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Chapter XXII 14:02 Lu par Crln Yldz Ksr
Chapter XXIII 5:14 Lu par Anna Simon