In the Wrong Paradise, by Andrew Lang

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Title: In the Wrong Paradise

Author: Andrew Lang

Release Date: November 8, 2004 [eBook #13984]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IN THE WRONG PARADISE***

Transcribed from the 1886 Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry

In the Wrong Paradise and Other Stories by Andrew Lang

Contents:

The End of Phaeacia In the Wrong Paradise A Cheap Nigger The Romance of the First Radical A Duchess's Secret The House of Strange Stories In Castle Perilous The Great Gladstone Myth My Friend the Beach-Comber

DEDICATION.

DEAR RIDER HAGGARD,

I have asked you to let me put your name here, that I might have the opportunity of saying how much pleasure I owe to your romances. They make one a boy again while one is reading them; and the student of "The Witch's Head" and of "King Solomon's Mines" is as young, in heart, as when he hunted long ago with Chingachgook and Uncas. You, who know the noble barbarian in his African retreats, appear to retain more than most men of his fresh natural imagination. We are all savages under our white skins; but you alone recall to us the delights and terrors of the world's nonage. We are hunters again, trappers, adventurers b

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