Books with title Diana: the True Story

There is not a dragon in the collection, nor even a giant; witches, here, play no part, and almost all the characters are grown up. On the other hand, if we have no fairies, we have princes in plenty, and a sweeter young prince than Tearlach (as far as this part of his story goes) the editor flatters himself that you shall nowhere find, not in Grimm, or Dasent, or Perrault. Still, it cannot be denied that true stories are not so good as fairy tales. They do not always end happily, and, what is worse, they do remind a young student of lessons and schoolrooms... There is, to be honest, no way of getting over this difficulty. But the editor vows that he does not mean to teach anybody, and he has tried to mix the stories up so much that no clear and consecutive view of history can possibly be obtained from them; moreover, when history does come in, it is not the kind of history favoured most by examiners. They seldom set questions on the conquest of Mexico, for example.

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books are a series of twenty-five collections of true and fictional stories for children, published between 1889 and 1913. The best known books of the series are the twelve collections of fairy tales, known as Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's Fairy Books of Many Colors. In all, the volumes feature 798 stories, besides the 153 poems in The Blue Poetry Book. The True Story Book contains twenty-four true stories, mainly drawn from European history. Stories Included Within This Book: A Boy among the Red Indians Casanova's Escape Adventures on the Findhorn The Story of Grace Darling The 'Shannon' and the 'Chesapeake' Captain Snelgrave and the Pirates The Spartan Three Hundred Prince Charlie's Wanderings Two Great Matches The Story of Kaspar Hauser An Artist's Adventure The Tale of Isandhlwana and Rorke's Drift How Lief the Lucky found Vineland the Good The Escapes of Cervantes The Worthy Enterprise of John Foxe Baron Trenck The Adventure of John Rawlins The Chevalier Johnstone's Escape from Culloden The Adventures of Lord Pitsligo The Escape of Caesar Borgia from the Castle of Medina del Campo The Kidnapping of the Princes The Conquest of Montezuma's Empire Adventures of Bartholomew Portugues, a Pirate The Return of the French Freebooters

Andrew Lang lived from 31 March 1844 to 20 July 1912. He was a prolific Scottish historian, translator, journalist, poet, writer, teacher, biographer and anthropologist. He is best remembered as a collector of folk and fairy tales: and a series of lectures at St Andrews University is named after him. The wider picture in Scotland at the time is set out in our Historical Timeline. Andrew was born in Selkirk as the oldest of eight children of the town clerk, John Lang, and his wife, Jane Plenderleath Sellar, daughter of Patrick Sellar, the infamous factor of the Sutherland estates responsible for some of the worst excesses of The Clearances. Andrew was educated at Selkirk grammar school, Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews University and Balliol College, Oxford. He later became a fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and rapidly made his name as a highly able and versatile author, poet, critic, historian and journalist.On 17 April 1875 he married Leonora Blanche Alleyne, with whom he later collaborated in the collection and translation of fairy stories from around the world. His series of books of fairy stories included the first publication in English of a number of classics such as "Little Red Riding Hood", "The Story of Three Bears", "The Ugly Duckling", "The Snow Queen", "Rapunzel", and "The Emperor's New Clothes".As a classicist, Lang collaborated in the publication of prose translations of Homer's poems "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey". He also wrote a series of books that underpinned the emerging field of "Psychical Research," and he became the President of the Society for Psychical Research in 1911. Other areas of interest were reflected in books as diverse as "The Ballads and Lyrics of Old France" (1872); "The Life and Letters of JG Lockhart" (1897); "Books and Bookmen" (1886); plus novels, short stories, poetry, plays, criticism and more. A sense of the scale of his output can be gained from the fact that he published no fewer that 13 books between 1910 and 1912.From a purely Scottish perspective, Lang made a major contribution to the understanding of Scottish history. His four volume "A History of Scotland - From the Roman Occupation" which appeared between 1900 and 1907 remains of interest today, as does his one volume "A Short History of Scotland", a distillation of the earlier work, published in 1911. His "The Mystery of Mary Stuart" (1901) was seen as breaking new ground at the time, and other major works included "James VI and the Gowrie Mystery" (1902); "John Knox and the Reformation" (1905); and "Pickle the Spy" (1897), which was an account of the life of Alestair Ruadh MacDonnell, who he said was "Pickle", a government spy in the Jacobite camp after the 1745 uprising.Andrew Lang died of a heart attack while staying at the Tor-na-Coille Hotel in Banchory on 20 July 1912. He was buried in the precinct of St Andrews Cathedral.

Andrew Lang (31 March 1844 – 20 July 1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him. Lang was born in Selkirk. He was the eldest of the eight children born to John Lang, the town clerk of Selkirk, and his wife Jane Plenderleath Sellar, who was the daughter of Patrick Sellar, factor to the first duke of Sutherland. On 17 April 1875, he married Leonora Blanche Alleyne, youngest daughter of C. T. Alleyne of Clifton and Barbados. She was (or should have been) variously credited as author, collaborator, or translator of Lang's Color/Rainbow Fairy Books which he edited. He was educated at Selkirk Grammar School, Loretto, and at the Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews University and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took a first class in the final classical schools in 1868, becoming a fellow and subsequently honorary fellow of Merton College. He soon made a reputation as one of the most able and versatile writers of the day as a journalist, poet, critic, and historian. In 1906, he was elected FBA. He died of angina pectoris at the Tor-na-Coille Hotel in Banchory, Banchory, survived by his wife. He was buried in the cathedral precincts at St Andrews.

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What's a girl to do when love has her caught up? That's the plight of eighteen-year-old Seven McKnight. Her freshman year at Stiles University turned out to be a tug of war for her heart and her sophomore year promised more of the same. Just when she'd sworn off her ex-boyfriend, Josiah Whitaker, and thought she'd never love him again, he boldly stepped back into her life, with no regard that she'd moved on with Zaire St. James, her new boyfriend. Caught off guard and thrust into a whirlwind of emotion, Seven no longer knows if she should stay or go. . . All she knows is that old feelings won't die, her new love is being ruined by lies, and the fairy tale she once dreamed of may never become her true story. Praise for Ni-Ni Simone "Smart and cutting, full of clever comebacks." --"Kirkus " on "No Boyz Allowed" "This is creative, innovative, and important storytelling for today's urban teen readership." --"Library Journal "on "Teenage Love Affair"

Excerpt: ...among the Christians, and thrice as fast. But shortly they drew near, so that the English bowmen fell to shooting so terribly among their galleys that there 169 were twice as many of the Turks slain as the whole number of the Christians. But the Turks discharged twice as fast against the Christians, and so long that the ship was very sorely battered and bruised, which the foe perceiving, made the more haste to come aboard. For this coming aboard many a Turk paid dearly with his life, but it was all in vain, and board they did, where they found a hot skirmish. For the Englishmen showed themselves men indeed, and the boatswain was valiant above the rest, for he fought among the Turks like a mad lion, and there was none of them that could stand in his face; till at last there came a shot that struck him in the breast, so that he fell down, bidding them farewell, and to be of good comfort, and exhorting them rather to win praise by death than to live in captivity and shame. This, they hearing, indeed intended to have done, but the number and press of the Turks was so great that they could not wield their weapons, and so were taken, when they intended rather to have died, except only the master's mate, who shrank from the fight like a notable coward. But so it was, and the Turks were victors, though they had little cause of triumph. Then it would have grieved any hard heart to see these infidels wantonly ill-treating the Christians, who were no 170 sooner in the galleys than their garments were torn from their backs, and they set to the oars. I will make no mention of their miseries, being now under their enemies' raging stripes, their bodies distressed with too much heat, and also with too much cold; but I will rather show the deliverance of those who, being in great misery, continually trust in God, with a steadfast hope that He will deliver them. Near the city of Alexandria, being a harbour, there is a ship-road, very well defended by strong walls,...

True Story is about the boy who cried wolf, or in this case, cat. A sneaky kid blames his two tuxedo cats for causing the mess in his bedroom and disaster in the kitchen. When his kitties create a “cat-caphony” of noise at night, the boy claims he’s innocent, but his pleas fall on deaf ears. His dad doesn’t believe him no matter how loudly he cries, “True Story.”

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