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The Haunted Wood

The Haunted Wood

A History of Childhood Reading

by Sam Leith
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/10/2024
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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 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.

ISBN:
9781998365098
9781998365098
Category:
Educational: English language: reading & writing skills
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-10-2024
Language:
English
Publisher:
Sutherland House Inc., The
Country of origin:
Canada
Dimensions (mm):
228.6x152.4x25.4mm
Weight:
0kg
Sam Leith

Sam Leith is literary editor at the Spectator, contributes columns to the Financial Times, the Evening Standard and Prospect, and his work appears regularly in the Guardian, The Times and the TLS among others.

His broadcasting work has included appearances on The Culture Show, The Review Show, Front Row, the News Quiz, Fry's English Delight and a regular slot on the Sky Arts Book Programme.

His books include Dead Pets, Sod's Law and You Talkin' to Me? Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama. The Coincidence Engine, his first novel, was published in April 2011 and was included in the "Waterstone's 11" list of the best first novels of that year.

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Educational: English language: reading & writing skills Literature: history & criticism Children's & teenage literature studies Literature & literary studies Social & cultural history Teaching of a specific subject Literary theory Educational: English literature
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