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Andrew Lang
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Walter Scott : unknown
'... [Walter Scott's] books captivated ... [Andrew Lang] as a boy and 'grow better on every fresh reading."'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Andrew Lang Print: Book
Charles Dickens : The Pickwick Papers
Andrew Lang, in Adventures Among Books, on being introduced to Dickens: 'I had minded my lessons, and satisfied my teachers -- I know I was reading Pinnock's "History of Rome" for pleasure -- till ... I felt a "call", and underwent a process which may be described as the opposite of "conversion". The call came from Dickens. Pickwick was brought into the house ... I read "Pickwick" in convulsions of mirth. I dropped Pinnock's "Rome" for good.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Andrew Lang Print: Book
Pinnock : History of Rome
Andrew Lang, in Adventures Among Books, on being introduced to Dickens: 'I had minded my lessons, and satisfied my teachers -- I know I was reading Pinnock's "History of Rome" for pleasure -- till ... I felt a "call", and underwent a process which may be described as the opposite of "conversion". The call came from Dickens. Pickwick was brought into the house ... I read "Pickwick" in convulsions of mirth. I dropped Pinnock's "Rome" for good.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Andrew Lang Print: Book
Harriet Beecher Stowe : Uncle Tom's Cabin
"In 1905 [Andrew] Lang ... recalled: 'The first book that ever made me cry, of which feat I was horribly ashamed, was 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', with the death of Eva ...'"
