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Literary Wonderlands: A Journey Through the Greatest Fictional Worlds Ever Created

Laura Miller
4.9/5 (25771 ratings)
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Description:A glorious collection that delves deep into the inception, influences, and literary and historical underpinnings of nearly 100 of our most beloved fictional realms.Literary Wonderlands is a thoroughly researched, wonderfully written, and beautifully produced book that spans four thousand years of creative endeavor. From Spenser's The Fairie Queene to Wells's The Time Machine to Murakami's 1Q84 it explores the timeless and captivating features of fiction's imagined worlds including the relevance of the writer's own life to the creation of the story, influential contemporary events and philosophies, and the meaning that can be extracted from the details of the work. Each piece includes a detailed overview of the plot and a "Dramatis Personae." Literary Wonderlands is a fascinating read for lovers of literature, fantasy, and science fiction. Laura Miller is the book's general editor. Co-founder of Salon.com, where she worked as an editor and writer for 20 years, she is currently a books and culture columnist at Slate. A journalist and a critic, her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, the Guardian, and the New York Times Book Review, where she wrote the "Last Word" column for two years. She is the author of The Magician's A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia and editor of the Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Literary Wonderlands: A Journey Through the Greatest Fictional Worlds Ever Created. To get started finding Literary Wonderlands: A Journey Through the Greatest Fictional Worlds Ever Created, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages
178
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal
Release
2016
ISBN
0316547735

Literary Wonderlands: A Journey Through the Greatest Fictional Worlds Ever Created

Laura Miller
4.4/5 (1290744 ratings)
Read Now Download now ⏭ listen AudioBook
Description: A glorious collection that delves deep into the inception, influences, and literary and historical underpinnings of nearly 100 of our most beloved fictional realms.Literary Wonderlands is a thoroughly researched, wonderfully written, and beautifully produced book that spans four thousand years of creative endeavor. From Spenser's The Fairie Queene to Wells's The Time Machine to Murakami's 1Q84 it explores the timeless and captivating features of fiction's imagined worlds including the relevance of the writer's own life to the creation of the story, influential contemporary events and philosophies, and the meaning that can be extracted from the details of the work. Each piece includes a detailed overview of the plot and a "Dramatis Personae." Literary Wonderlands is a fascinating read for lovers of literature, fantasy, and science fiction. Laura Miller is the book's general editor. Co-founder of Salon.com, where she worked as an editor and writer for 20 years, she is currently a books and culture columnist at Slate. A journalist and a critic, her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, the Guardian, and the New York Times Book Review, where she wrote the "Last Word" column for two years. She is the author of The Magician's A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia and editor of the Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Literary Wonderlands: A Journey Through the Greatest Fictional Worlds Ever Created. To get started finding Literary Wonderlands: A Journey Through the Greatest Fictional Worlds Ever Created, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
178
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal
Release
2016
ISBN
0316547735

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