Full name: Literary Wonderlands: A Journey Through the Greatest Fictional Worlds Ever Created

Author: Laura Miller Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Books about books, Non Fiction, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780316316385 0316316385

A glorious, full-illustrated collection that delves deep into the inception, influences, and literary and historical underpinnings of nearly 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's The 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. Similar books: Curiosities of Literature by John Sutherland Read This Next by Howard Mittelmark The Modern Library: 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 by Carmen Callil The Novel 100 by Daniel S. Burt Classics for Pleasure by Michael Dirda Book by Book by Michael Dirda Dead Wake by Erik Larson Invisible Forms by Kevin Jackson The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Book Smart by Jane Mallison Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer The History of Jihad by Robert Spencer Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink The Oregon Trail by Rinker Buck The History of Surfing by Matt Warshaw Washington's Immortals by Patrick K. O'Donnell Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga American Gun by Chris Kyle