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The Magician’s Book
A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
Contributors
By Laura Miller
Formats and Prices
- On Sale
- Dec 3, 2008
- Page Count
- 320 pages
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- ISBN-13
- 9780316040266
Price
$7.99Price
$9.99 CADFormat
Format:
- ebook $7.99 $9.99 CAD
- Trade Paperback $21.99 $28.99 CAD
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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 imagination.
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 imagination.
