'A MARVEL' PHILIP PULLMAN
Can you remember the first time you fell in love with a book?
The stories we read as children matter. The best ones are indelible in our memories; reaching far beyond our childhoods, they are a window into our deepest hopes, joys and anxieties. They reveal our past - collective and individual, remembered and imagined - and invite us to dream up different futures.
In a pioneering history of the children's literary canon, The Haunted Wood reveals the magic of childhood reading, from the ancient tales of Aesop, through the Victorian and Edwardian golden age to new classics. Excavating the complex lives of our most beloved writers, Sam Leith offers a humane portrait of a genre and celebrates the power of books to inspire and console entire generations.
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'A delight.' Julia Donaldson
'Profoundly erudite and gloriously entertaining, this is the most purely enjoyable literary history I have ever read.' Tom Holland
'The Haunted Wood captures the magic of childhood reading and casts a spell of its own.' Laura Freeman, The Times
| ISBN: | 9780861548187 |
| Publication date: | 5th September 2024 |
| Author: | Sam Leith |
| Publisher: | Oneworld an imprint of Oneworld Publications |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 592 pages |
| Genres: |
Biography: writers Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary companions, book reviews and guides Social and cultural history Children’s and teenage literature studies: general Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Literature: history and criticism |