Literary Wonderlands: A Journey Through the Greatest Fictional Worlds Ever Created

From Spenser's The Fairie Queene to Wells's The Time Machine to Murakami's 1Q84 it explores the timeless & captivating features of fiction's imagined worlds including the relevance of the writer's own life to the creation of the story, influential contemporary events & philosophies, & the meaning that can be extracted from the details of the work. 

Each piece includes a detailed overview of the plot & a "Dramatis Personae."  Literary Wonderlands is a fascinating read for lovers of literature, fantasy, & science fiction. 

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Laura Miller is the book's general editor. Co-founder of Salon.com, where she worked as an editor & writer for 20 years, she is currently a books & culture columnist at Slate. A journalist and a critic, her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, the Guardian, & the New York Times Book Review, where she wrote the "Last Word" column for two years. She is the author of The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia & editor of the Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors.