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Magician's Book (2008)

by Laura Miller(Favorite Author)

3.8 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0316040266 (ISBN13: 9780316040266)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Little, Brown & Company

review 1: Chapter titlesPart One Songs of Innocence - William Blake 1 The Light in the Forest - Conrad Richter 2 Animal-Land - Makoto Raiku 3 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 4 Boxcar Children - Gertrude Chandler Warner 5 Something Wicked This Way comes - Ray Bradbury 6 Little House in the Big Woods - Laura Ingalls Wilder 7 Through the Looking-Glass - Lewis CarrollPart Two Trouble in Paradise 8 Forests and Trees 9 The Awful Truth 10 Required Reading 11 Garlic and Onions 12 Girl Trouble 13 Blood Will Out 14 Arrows of Desire 15 The Other Way InPart Three Songs of Experience - William Blake 16 Castlereagh Hills 17 The Far Country 18 Northern Lights 19 The Builder and the Dreamer 20 The Second Love 21 Marvelous Journeys 22 A Too-Impressionable Man 23 The Old Religion 24 Rich... morees All About You 25 The Third Road 26 A Formula of Power over Living Men 27 Further Up and Further In - The Last Battle
review 2: A thoughtful reflection on the structure and making of the Narnia Chronicles. Could also have been titled, “Escape from Narnia.” Miller compares myth and symbol to fantasy and allegory, and compares the beliefs and approaches of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. They were both outsiders who fought for the inner circle, the “tradition” of England, of God and Country, more than those whose membership in the inner circle was undoubted. Tolkien thought Narnia a slapdash, balderdash, hodgepodge, rush job. Miller, on the loss of unitary, concrete meanings that accompanies the development of greater specialization of language and culture: “Now I am my own woman, but I used to be a goddess.” less

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