false 3790544 2 <i>The Magician's Book</i> is the story of one reader's long, tumultuous relationship with C.S. Lewis' <I>The Chronicles of Narnia</I>. 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. 3834676 book 3 12 2008 The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia total:224|5:45|4:107|3:50|2:16|1:6| 224 841 705 106 5 7 false false Mon Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 04 06:13:27 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 04 06:17:04 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Tue Mar 17 05:27:13 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 08 10:32:47 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 05:27:13 -0700 2009 Salon.com co-founder Laura Miller fell in love with Narnia in the second grade when her teacher handed her a copy of The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. Several years later, Laura, by then a lapsing Catholic and a junior-high student, read that C.S. Lewis's intent in writing the ...more...]]> 4 3 false false Mon Jan 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 27 15:29:43 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 12 22:41:11 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 3 false false Fri Jan 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 12:26:04 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 23 10:33:19 -0800 2009
This passage (chapter 26) most accurately summarizes the...more...]]> 2 2 false true Wed Nov 26 11:05:24 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 30 13:43:15 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Fri Jul 18 03:30:16 -0700 2008 Thu Dec 25 03:04:16 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 3 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jan 09 11:40:33 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 11:43:18 -0800 2009 The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia might be described as a secular appreciation, not only of Narnia, but of Lewis' imagination as a whole, as well as its...more...]]> 5 2 false false Thu Apr 16 12:58:02 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 13:41:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Feb 05 10:02:34 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 10:02:34 -0800 2009 In The Magician's Book, an attractive stew of biography, critical analysis, reader's notes, and fan mail, critic and writer Laura Miller details her lifelong love affair with the seven novels that make up C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia. She also tackles Lewis's Christian themes and his perceived...

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The author of "The Magician's Book" was swept away as a child, like many of us were, by the enchantment of that world beyond the wardrobe, and in fact that was her real introduction to the world of books. As a teen, however, (again like many ...more...]]> 4 2 false false Mon Apr 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 14:48:14 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 14:53:00 -0700 2009 The Chronicles of Narnia from the Christian commentary that has essentially annexed this series as a kind of sacred text and regard it as a great theological statement (I know these types of people myself). I would have been just fine ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Feb 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 18:30:05 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 17:55:37 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Dec 23 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 29 18:22:04 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 18:40:06 -0800 2009 1
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