Social origins a series edited

Jump to ratings and reviews. Want to read. Rate this book. Social Origins. Primal Law. Andrew Lang , James Jasper Atkinson. Loading interface About the author. Andrew Lang 3, books followers. Andrew Gabriel Lang, a prolific Scotsman of letters, contributed poetry, novels, literary criticism, and collected now best folklore. The Young Scholar and Journalist Andrew Gabriel Lang, the son of the town clerk and the eldest of eight children, lived in Selkirk in the Scottish borderlands.

The wild and beautiful landscape of childhood greatly affected the youth and inspired a lifelong love of the outdoors and a fascination with local folklore and history.

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He later achieved his literary Short History of Scotland. A gifted student and avid reader, Lang went to the prestigious Saint Andrews University, which now holds a lecture series in his honor every few years, and then to Balliol College, Oxford. Moving to London at the age of 31 years in as an already published poet, he started working as a journalist.

His dry sense of humor, style, and huge array of interests made him a popular editor and columnist quickly for The Daily Post , Time magazine and Fortnightly Review.