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Children's books – from Narnia to The Hobbit – are celebrated in this enlightened examination of the joys of childhood reading. Fairy tales and Where the Wild Things Are, The Lord of the Rings and the Narnia books, Little House on the Prairie and The Earthsea Trilogy. What would you find if you went back and re-read your favourite books from childhood? Francis Spufford discovers both delight and sadness, in this widely celebrated memoir of a boy who retreats into books, faced with...

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Sprache Englisch ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9780571266432 ● Verlag Faber & Faber ● Erscheinungsjahr 2010 ● herunterladbar 6 mal ● Währung EUR ● ID 2338307 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM

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