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The Magician's Book

The Magician's Book

A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia

by Laura Miller
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/04/2010
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THE MAGICIAN'S BOOK is the story of one reader's long, tumultuous relationship with C.S. Lewis's 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.
ISBN:
9780316017657
9780316017657
Category:
Literary studies: fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-04-2010
Language:
English
Publisher:
Little, Brown & Company
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
336
Dimensions (mm):
209x138x20mm
Weight:
0.31kg
Laura Miller

Laura Miller is a journalist and critic living in New York. She is currently a books and culture columnist at Slate. Laura is also co-founder of Salon.com, where she worked as an editor and writer for 20 years.

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 Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia and editor of the Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors.

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