The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading
by Sam Leith
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"Do you remember the first time you fell in love with a book? The stories we read as children extend 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 children's literature, from the ancient world to the present day, Sam Leith reveals the magic of our most cherished stories, and the ways in which they have show more shaped and consoled entire generations. Excavating the complex lives of beloved writers, Leith offers a humane portrait of a genre - one acutely sensitive to its authors' distinct contexts."-- show lessTags
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Sam Leith is a literary editor at the Spectator and columnist, for the Financial Times. Evening Standard, and Prospect. His writing has also appeared in The Times, the Guardian, and the Times Literary Supplement, among others, and he is the author of many books, including his most recent, the critically acclaimed Words Like Loaded Pistols: show more Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama. show less
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The Guardian Book of the Day (2024-09-21)
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- Original publication date
- 2024
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- Literature Studies and Criticism, Nonfiction, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 809.89282 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism History, description, critical appraisal of more than two literatures By or for groups of persons Cultural theory of the literature of social groups Children's literature
- LCC
- PR990 .L45 — Language and Literature English English Literature
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- English
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