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A study of the lives and work of Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, J.M. Barrie, Kenneth Grahame and A.A. Milne. It examines their personal reasons for writing fantasy works, and also the cult of childhood in late-Victorian society. Includes an epilogue looking at the 'Harry Potter' phenomenon.

A definitive biography of the great Danish storyteller describes Andersen's turbulent and difficult personal life, from his birth in 1805, through his success as a writer in mid-nineteenth-century Europe, to his desperate search of love, ambition, and meaning. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Describes Andersen's turbulent and difficult life, from his birth in 1805, through his success as a writer in mid-nineteenth-century Europe, to his desperate search for love, ambition, and meaning.

Product Description: “When Matisse dies,” Pablo Picasso remarked in the 1950s, “Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what color really is.” As a pioneer of modernism and one of the greatest figurative artists of the twentieth century, Marc Chagall achieved fame and fortune, and over the course of a long career created some of the best-known and most-loved paintings of our time...read more