How to Fail in Literature; a lecture

How to Fail in Literature, by Andrew Lang
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Title: How to Fail in Literature
Author: Andrew Lang Release Date: May 11, 2005 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) [eBook #2566]
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Transcribed from the 1890 Field & Tuer edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
HOW TO FAIL IN LITERATURE: A LECTURE BY ANDREW LANG
PREFACE
This Lecture was delivered at the South Kensington Museum, in aid of the College for Working Men and Women. As the Publishers, perhaps erroneously, believe that some of the few authors who were not present may be glad to study the advice here proffered, the Lecture is now printed. It has been practically re-written, and, like the kiss which the Lady returned to Rodolphe, is revu, corrigé, et considerablement augmenté. A. L.
HOW TO FAIL IN LITERATURE
What should be a man’s or a woman’s reason for taking literature as a vocation, what sort of success ought they to desire, what sort of ambition should possess them? These are natural questions, now that so many readers exist in the world, all asking for something new, now that so many writers ...