Sam Leith: The Haunted Wood, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Haunted Wood
- A History of Childhood Reading
- Publisher:
- Oneworld Publications, 09/2025
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781836430407
- Item number:
- 12166132
- Volume:
- 578 Pages
- Weight:
- 508 g
- Format:
- 198 x 129 mm
- Thickness:
- 42 mm
- Release date:
- 4.9.2025
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
Can you remember the first time you fell in love with a book?
A Sunday Times , Irish Times , Financial Times , Independent, Daily Mail , TLS, Economist, Prospect, Evening Standard and New Statesman Book of the Year 2024
The perfect Christmas gift for booklovers
'A MARVEL' PHILIP PULLMAN
The stories we read as children matter. The best ones are indelible in our memories; reaching 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 the children's literary canon, The Haunted Wood reveals the magic of childhood reading, from the ancient tales of Aesop, through the Victorian and Edwardian golden age to new classics. Excavating the complex lives of our most beloved writers, Sam Leith offers a humane portrait of a genre and celebrates the power of books to inspire and console entire generations.
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'A DELIGHT' JULIA DONALDSON
'A JOY' MICHAEL ROSEN
'GLORIOUSLY ENTERTAINING' TOM HOLLAND
Biography
Sam Leith, geboren 1974, studierte in Eton und am Magdalen College in Oxford. Nach Ende seines Studiums schrieb er für das britische Satiremagazin Punch, bevor er als Feuilletonredakteur zur Daily Mail und dem Daily Telegraph wechselte. Heute veröffentlicht er seine Artikel in diversen Zeitungen und Zeitschriften wie The Spectator, The Wall Street Journal und The Guardian. Er hat außerdem eine Kolumne im Evening Standard. Der Autor lebt mit seiner Frau und seinen beiden Kindern in London.
