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

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


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Literary Wonderlands is a thoroughly researched, wonderfully written, and beautifully produced book that spans two 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. With hundreds of pieces of original artwork, illustration and cartography, as well as a detailed overview of the plot and a "Dramatis Personae" for each work, Literary Wonderlands is a fascinating read for lovers of literature, fantasy, and science fiction.

The gardens featured are large and small, urban and rural in a wide range of styles from contemporary to classical to naturalistic. Every aspect of designing a garden is explored, from assessing your plot and soil to choosing a style as your inspiration, selecting the right components (be they hard landscaping, boundaries or plants) and tackling more challenging spaces. Superb reproductions represent over 30 years of great surrealist's career: "The Basket of Bread, Disappearing Bust of Voltaire, The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used as a Table, The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory, The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, " and 19 more. Introduction. Notes. Captions. One afternoon in 1994, I had an idea. Literary Wonderlands: A Journey Through the Greatest Fictional Worlds Ever Created pdf So begins Stuart David s charming, evocative memoir about the indie pop band Belle and Sebastian.


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Author: Laura Miller
Number of Pages: 320 pages
Published Date: 24 Nov 2016
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780316316385
Download Link: Click Here
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