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Secret gardens : a study of the golden age of children's literature / Humphrey Carpenter.
Item details
- ISBN: 0395352932 :
- ISBN: 9780395352939
- ISBN: 0395573742
- ISBN: 9780395573747
- Physical Description: xi, 235 p., [12] p. of plates : ill ; 25 cm.
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1985.
Contents / Notes
| General Note: | Includes index. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Bibliography: p. [224]-231. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Preface -- Prologue : The road to Arcadia -- pt. 1. Arrears of destruction -- 1. Parson Lot takes a cold bath : Charles Kingsley and The water babies -- 2. Alice and the mockery of God -- 3. George MacDonald and the tender grandmother -- 4. Louisa Alcott and the happy family -- pt. 2. The Arcadians -- 1. Bevis, the pioneer -- 2. Kenneth Grahame and the search for Arcadia -- 3. E. Nesbit : a Victorian in disguise -- 4. Beatrix Potter : the ironist in Arcadia -- 5. The wind in the willows -- 6. J.M. Barrie and Peter Pan : "That terrible masterpeice" -- 7. A.A. Milne and Winnie-the-Pooh : farewell to the enchanted places -- Epilogue : The garden revisited -- Notes and references -- Index. |
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