The Magician's Book
A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
Enchanted by Narnia's fantastic world as a child, prominent critic Laura Miller returns to the series as an adult to uncover the source of these small books' mysterious power by looking at their creator, Clive Staples Lewis. What she discovers is not the familiar, idealized image of the author, but a more interesting and ambiguous truth: Lewis's tragic and troubled childhood, his unconventional love life, and his intense but ultimately doomed friendship with J.R.R. Tolkien. Finally reclaiming Narnia for the rest of us, Miller casts the Chronicles as a profoundly literary creation, and the portal to a lifelong adventure in books, art, and the…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-316-04026-6
- EAN: 9780316040266
- Produktnummer: 22800451
- Verlag: Little, Brown and Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 300 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 404 KB
Über den Autor
Laura Miller is a journalist and critic. She is a cofounder of Salon.com, where she is currently a staff writer, and is the editor of The Salon.com Readers Guide to Contemporary Authors. A regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review, her work has also appeared in the New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, Time, and other publications. She lives in New York.
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