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Peter Hunt & Millicent Lenz
Alternative Worlds in Fantasy Fiction [PDF ebook]

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This book provides an illuminating guide to literature that creates alternative worlds for young readers. Focusing on the work of Ursula Le Guin, Terry Pratchett and Philip Pullman, the book considers both the genre of ”alternative worlds” and the distinctiveness of these authors” texts, including Philip Pullman”s The Amber Sypglass.

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Format PDF ● Pages 184 ● ISBN 9780826420770 ● Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing ● Published 2004 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 4909972 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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