Chapter 16
Horace Walpole, a very odd character, wrote a tale called the three Princes of Serendip.
Horace Walpole ’s “Lives of the Most Eminent Poets” of 1769. Chapter 15 The three Princes of Serendip in a Collection of Walpole’s Fables called Fables for an Old Man.
The three Princes of Serendip. by Horace Walpole ’s Protean Proteus: a Poem in Prose in Three Parts.
Horace Walpole’s Epistle, the three Princes of Serendip. Letter 7, of the third volume.
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The Three Princes of Serendip (later published as "Three Tales of Serendip") is a collection of five fairy tales by Horace Walpole.
Six of Walpole’s fairy tales and fables were published by his friend Horace Mann. Another of his tales, Proteus, a Poem in Prose, was published posthumously by his nephew William Mason.
Walpole’s stories appeared in an edition titled Fables for an Old Man.
Walpole’s tales are a parody of Samuel Butler’s fables and was used in 1838 to satirize “Protean Proteus” by Byron in his satiric novel The Age of Bronze.
Fables for an Old Man
The Fables for an Old Man is a collection of five fairy tales by Horace Walpole, Horace Mann's friend. The stories appeared in Walpole's "The three Princes of Serendip", in a collection titled Fables for an Old Man. The collection includes the fables "Roxana", "The Arabian Tale of the Three Princes", "The Three Princes of Serendip", "H. B. Palgrave", and "The two Old Men".
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