The Magician's Book
A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
by Laura Miller
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A co-founder and staff writer for Salon.com explores the meaning and influence of C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia series while revealing how Lewis's troubled childhood, unconventional love life, and friendship with J. R. R. Tolkien affected his writing.
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Appreciation, Biography & Autobiography, Books and reading, Children's stories, English, Criticism, Criticism and interpretation, English Fantasy fiction, Fantasy fiction, English, History and criticism, Influence, Narnia (Imaginary place), Nonfiction, Lewis, c. s. (clive staples), 1898-1963, Children's literature, history and criticism, Fantasy fiction, history and criticism, Art appreciation, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.), Analys och tolkning, Mottagande, Inluenser, Chronicles of Narnia (Lewis, C.S.)People
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The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
2008, Little, Brown and Co.
in English
- 1st ed.
0316017639 9780316017633
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The Magician's Book
2008, Little, Brown and Company
Electronic resource
in English
0316040266 9780316040266
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THE MAGICIAN'S BOOK is the story of one reader's long, tumultuous relationship with C.S. Lewis'The Chronicles of Narnia. Enchanted by its 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 life-long adventure in books, art, and the imagination.
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