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  The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia (Paperback) By (author) Laura Miller

  

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  Short Description for The Magician's BookThe meaning and the extraordinary impact of C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, explored by one of the finest critics writing today.
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  • Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
  • Published: 21 January 2010
  • Format: Paperback 336 pages
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  • Categories: Biography: Literary | Literary Studies: From C 1900 - | Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers | Children's Literature Studies: General
  • ISBN 13: 9780316017657 ISBN 10: 0316017655
  • Sales rank: 125,739

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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.