Literary Wonderlands

A Journey Through the Greatest Fictional Worlds Ever Created

By: Laura Miller

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Hardcover | 1 November 2016 | Edition Number 1

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A glorious, full-illustrated collection that delves deep into the inception, influences, and literary and historical underpinnings of 100 of our most beloved fictional realms.
Literary Wonderlands is a thoroughly researched, wonderfully written, and beautifully produced book that spans two thousand years of creative endeavor. From Spenser'sThe 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.
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 atSlate. A journalist and a critic, her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, theGuardian, and the New York Times Book Review, where she wrote the "Last Word" column for two years. She is the author ofThe 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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"A beautiful, enchanting book."--Andrew Sean Greer, The New York Times "An engaging read on its own merits, Literary Wonderlands is equally valuable as a resource for further reading and as fodder for arguments over the works it includes (and leaves out)."----Florinda Pendley Vasquez, Shelf Awareness

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